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Aging, Late Style, and Untimeliness in Recent Literary Fiction by Martin Walser
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 97–113.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Stuart Taberner Many of Martin Walser's early works describe the triumph of conformity over subjectivity. From the early 1990s, however, Walser's characters begin to develop a stubborn insistence on self-expression, and this externalizes their author's “late style.” In a series of extraordinarily...
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The Non-German German and the German German: Dilemmas of Identity after the Holocaust
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94.
Published: 01 August 2007
... the Holocaust
discourse.9 Indeed, had not the writer Martin Walser caused a stir in 1998 by
claiming that Holocaust memory was wielded like a “moral cudgel” to bully
Germans into accepting a politically correct version of their past?10 He was just
one of many who opposed the decision to construct...
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Against Memory as Justice
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 135–160.
Published: 01 August 2006
..., rational
manner, but with the implicit idea that one must preserve this past and keep
it alive by attributing to it a role—without ever specifying which role it should
be given.”11 It is a “moral cudgel,” as Martin Walser has provocatively argued
about the all-purpose iteration of the lessons...
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Introduction
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., Vienna, as the hangman’s house, despite
the decades that have passed.2 Many Germans, whether they are students or
members of older generations, avoid confronting past atrocities directly. Where
Jewish persecution is concerned, many openly or tacitly maintain Martin
Walser’s position...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., it has nevertheless become a catchword of sorts
in another arena. “The older authors become, the more a single idea takes hold
of them” the thirty-eight-year-old Martin Walser noted in an essay of 1965 (see
Taberner’s contribution in this issue). One might be forgiven for thinking that
that idea...
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Generational Shifts: Representing Post-Wende Berlin
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
... rejection of reading Ger-
many through the narrative of Nazism.
There are advocates of reinterpreting cultural memory, Ernst Nolte,
Martin Walser, Ulrich Greiner, Frank Schirrmacher, to name but a few, who
have insisted on an obligation for contemporary Germany to move cultural,
social...
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Sympathy for the Devil: Cinema, History, and the Politics of Emotion
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 17–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
...” (“Feeling for History a term that we owe to Martin
Walser. In a speech on the anniversary of the end of World War II, and by
invitation of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Walser had defi ned his “feeling
for history, regarding Germany,” as “the store of all experiences I have made
with Germany.” He...
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Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 99–139.
Published: 01 November 2021
... title— Logis in einem Landhaus , or literally “lodgings in a country house”—immediately suggests a guiding preoccupation in these essays on figures such as Rousseau, Keller, and Walser. Sebald is drawn to two things in particular. First, he is fascinated by how writing can become a “continually self...
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Longing for the Sonderweg
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 205–215.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a new self-perception gradually emerged. For Martin Walser or Egon Bahr, an adviser of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the Holocaust should be commemorated without “blocking the road to normality.” 10 A retrospective gaze, more than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, easily shows...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
... significant way. Martin Walser, the novelist, considered the editors’ chal-
lenge simply ridiculous. The Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, who had been
Unseld’s guest during the Frankfurt Book Fair, pitied the editors as frustrated
intellectuals who envied their boss for his young girlfriend and the fast car...
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New Perspectives in German Studies: A View from the Margins
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 71–80.
Published: 01 November 2023
... history and culture from new angles or “vanishing points,” as Helmut Walser Smith put it, challenging the traditional boundaries of German studies. 2 Still, almost two decades later, Geyer’s question is as pertinent as ever. I would like to respond to it in the affirmative: yes, German history...
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Old-Age Style: The Case of Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 65–80.
Published: 01 August 2015
... for discussing Schoenberg’s own
biographical late style, and I argue instead for the greater relevance of some
of Adorno’s subsequent writings.
1. Stuart Taberner, Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and
Martin Walser: The Mannerism of a Late Period (Rochester, NY...
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German Painting in the Cold War
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... became a major
topic in Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Böll, Kluge, and Wolf—but it was the
everyday life of German Gentiles, not of German Jews.
The new uses of figuration in painting, though very different from artist
to artist, were primarily initiated by artists who had grown up...
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Revolt against Time: Jean Améry on the Constitution of the Self
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
Published: 01 February 2023
... . Arendt Hannah . On Violence . New York : Harcourt , 1970 . Arendt Hannah . The Origins of Totalitarianism . New York : Harcourt , 1973 . Assmann Aleida . “ Two Forms of Resentment: Jean Améry, Martin Walser, and German Memorial Culture .” New German Critique , no. 90...
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Ruins of the Cold War
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 155–180.
Published: 01 February 2011
... as
synonymous with “backwardness” (in Martin Walser’s famous formulation) and recognize its
“inexact, interchangeable, and often paradoxical” meanings (Andreas Badenoch), the link between
Heimat and folkloric provincialism persists in the vernacular. See Walser, Heimatkunde: Aufsätze
und Reden (Frankfurt...
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The Politics of Longevity: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Essayism and the Art of Outliving Oneself
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 137–170.
Published: 01 November 2013
... short at precisely the right moment, others that might have been remem-
bered quite differently had not a pesky few decades of festering obsolescence
intervened between a life’s high point and its end. How differently would, for
instance, Günther Grass’s or Martin Walser’s presence loom...
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Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a series of writers began to depict Heimat in their work, prompted by the
rise of citizens’ initiatives, the current of regionalism, and the return to every-
day experience as a literary subject. He cites the contribution of Max Frisch,
Siegfried Lenz, and Martin Walser to the rehabilitation of Heimat...
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Catholicism and the Economy of Miracles in West Germany, 1920–1960
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 9–40.
Published: 01 November 2015
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of Ronald Ross and Rudolf Morsey, have thought about the Center Party and
Catholicism’s relationship to democratic politics more broadly. Rebecca Ayako
Bennette, David Blackbourn, and Helmut Walser Smith have written about
Catholic formulations of German national belonging.4
This avalanche...
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Baroque out of Focus: The Question of Mediation in Wölfflin
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 79–109.
Published: 01 February 2018
... . “ Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben .” Jahrbuch der Gehe-Stiftung 9 : 185 – 206 . Smith Helmut Walser . 1995 . German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870–1914 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Somaini Antonio . 2016 . “ Walter...
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Death Wish: Suicide and Stereotype in the Gay Discourses of Imperial and Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
... . 6. Beachy, Gay Berlin , 101 . 7. This argument draws its inspiration from Peter Brooks’s Reading for the Plot and the application of Brooks’s arguments in Helmut Walser Smith’s Butcher’s Tale , in which Smith argues that specific narratives around the myth of Jewish blood libel had...
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