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Europe in Upheaval
This volume on the term “Europe” is based on a conference that took place in the winter of 2018 at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. Europe in its complexity, in its character of radical change and its power of fascination is of unbroken topicality. At the same time, European identity is endangered by current challenges such as populism and the rise of nationalism. The contributions to the conference address the question of the extent to which contemporary literature and also current films react to these upheavals and to what extent the talk of a crisis in Europe or European integration is perceptible in the areas of literature and film. This book is a translation of t...
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W. G. Sebald in Context
The German academic and writer W. G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. In this volume, leading experts from both the English- and the German-speaking worlds explore his celebrated prose works published in the short span from 1996 to his premature death in 2001. Special attention is paid to Sebald's unpublished texts and books awaiting translation into English. The volume – illustrated with many unpublished archive images – scrutinizes the dual nature of Sebald's life and work, located between Germany and England, academic and literary writing, vilification and idolization. Through nearly forty essays on a broad range of topics, W. G. Sebald in Context achieves a revision of our understanding of Sebald, defying many clichés about him. Particular attention is paid to the manifold ways in which Sebald's writings exerted a legacy far beyond literature, especially in the areas of art, cinema, and popular music.
The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the U.S. and received degrees in English literature as well as her Ph.D. in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at several American universities. She has numerous scholarly publications to her credit, mostly in the fields of German and Austrian literary history. She is also recognized as a poet in her own right, an essayist, and a feminist critic. She returned to Europe, wher...
Christian Kracht‘s Aesthetics
The contributions to this volume are devoted to Christian Kracht's aesthetics under two main aspects: On the one hand, with regard to sometimes irritatingly twisted actualizations of that self-reference and reservation which, since Kant, is to be evaluated as a central mode of the aesthetic; on the other hand, with regard to interferences with areas that are usually perceived as extra-aesthetic, but which can be evaluated as ferments of contemporary aesthetics: Stagings in the field of the literary establishment, the aesthetic under media and market conditions, and in the focus of canonization and criticism. Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, which were intensively commented on by the media, form the background to this discussion.
Presidential Elections
Brimming with data and examples from the heated 2004 election, and laced with previews of 2008, the twelfth edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The comprehensive coverage includes campaign strategy, the sequence of electoral events, and the issues, all from the perspective of the various actors in the election process voters, interest groups, political parties, the media, and the candidates themselves.
Freshwater Families
Thomas Freshwater (born 1633) arrived in Rappahannock County, Virginia in 1656 from England. He married Joan (Haselock) Hamock. Descendants lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Missouri, Utah, Ohio, Iowa and elsewhere.
Magie und Metapher bei Clemens J. Setz
Das Werk des österreichischen Schriftstellers Clemens J. Setz stellt einen vor Herausforderungen: In der literarischen Öffentlichkeit gelten seine Texte trotz zahlreicher Belobigungen als rätselhaft, irritierend oder sperrig. Einfache oder zumindest eindeutige Erklärungen für die darin geschilderten, oft unwirklich oder sogar magisch erscheinenden Ereignisse gibt es größtenteils nicht, was im eigentümlichen Kontrast zu den ebenso großräumig wie detailreich geschilderten, nicht selten idiosynkratischen Wahrnehmungen und Reflexionen der Figuren steht. Eingebunden in eine reichhaltige Verweisstruktur auf verschiedenen Ebenen, die sich insbesondere in einer Vielzahl von Metaphern niede...
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TEXT + KRITIK Sonderband - Literatur im öffentlichen Raum
Literatur im öffentlichen Raum: politisch performt – geheim gesprüht – ästhetisch installiert. Wo uns Literatur unerwartet begegnet, bewegt und erregt. Anders als der Begriff der 'Kunst im öffentlichen Raum' (engl. 'Public Art') hat sich die Bezeichnung 'Literatur im öffentlichen Raum' lange Zeit kaum etabliert. Erst in den letzten Jahren kam es zu Neugründungen, wie der Stabsstelle am Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach, zu Projekt- und Forschungsinitiativen, die das Verhältnis von Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in den Blick nehmen. Aktionen, die mit urbanen und regionalen Räumen interagieren, ästhetisch irritieren und politisch intervenieren, Öffentlichkeit also nicht nur suchen...
