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German Studies June 4, 2018

Post-Katastrophische Poetik

Zu W. G. Sebald und Walter Benjamin

Luisa Banki

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W. G. Sebald, one of the most prominent German-speaking authors of the late 20th century, has been discussed in German literary studies again and again. Nonetheless, many questions about him …
German Studies April 25, 2018

Turkish Women Writers in German Cities

Jannica Budde

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In Germany, beginning in the 1960s, a major population shift took place. The reason for it was the German guest worker program. Due to the German 'economic miracle,' the country …
German Studies April 12, 2018

Autopoiesis and Literature

The Short History of an Endless Process

Marcel Schmid

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In his new book Autopoiesis and Literature: The Short History of an Endless Process (Autopoiesis und Literatur: Die kurze Geschichte eines endlosen Verfahrens [transcript, 2016]), Marcel Schmid, a visiting postdoc …
German Studies April 2, 2018

Man, the Ape

Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900

Hanna Engelmeier

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The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin's On the Origin of Species by …
German Studies March 23, 2018

Theater of the Maimed

Fictional Characters between Deformation und Destruction in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries

Till Nitschmann

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In his new book Theater of the Maimed: Fictional Characters between Deformation und Destruction in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries (Knigshausen and Neumann, 2015) (Theater der …
German Studies March 14, 2018

Wissen um Stimmung

Diskurs und Poetik in Robert Musils Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless und Vereinigungen

Sergej Rickenbacher

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In his new book, Wissen um Stimmung (Knowledge of Mood), Sergej Rickenbacher, a post-doc at the University of Aachen, examines two works of Robert Musil from the perspective of knowledge …
German Studies February 28, 2018

Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice

Representations of Dilettantism in the Works of Philipp Moritz, Carl Einstein und Thomas Bernhard

Julia Kerscher

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In her new book, Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice (Autodidaktik, Artistik, Medienpraktik [Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016]), Julia Kerscher, postdoc at the University of Tubingen examines the historical development of appearances of …
German Studies January 22, 2018

The Moving View

The Gaze in the Modern German Literature

Margarete Fuchs

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In her new book Der bewegende Blick: Literarische Blickinszenierungen der Moderne (Rombach Verlag, 2014)---The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature---Margarete Fuchs, a postdoc at the Philipps University …
German Studies January 16, 2018

Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered

The Discourse of 'Europe' in Contemporary German Literature

Lena Wetenkamp

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Lena Wetenkamp's Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered: The Discourse of 'Europe' in Contemporary German Literature (Europa erzhalt, verortet, erinnert: Europa-Diskurse in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (Koenigshausen and Neumann, 2017)) is an …
German Studies December 24, 2017

Sehnsucht nach dem Guten

Tanja Angela Kunz

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In her new book Longing for the Good. The Relationship between Literature and Ethics in the Work of Peter Handke (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017), Tanja Angela Kunz, a postdoc at …
German Studies December 1, 2017

Morality and Literature

A Historical Typology

Christian Kirchmeier

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In his new book Morality and Literature: A Historical Typology (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013)---in German: Moral und Literatur. Eine historische Typologie---Christian Kirchmeier, post doc at the University of Munich who …
German Studies November 24, 2017

Thieves

Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth

Andreas Gehrlach

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In his new book Thieves: Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016)---in German: Diebe: Die heimliche Aneignung als Ursprungserzahlung in Literatur, Philosophie und Mythos---Andreas Gehrlach, post doc …