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A Well-Tempered Modernist
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Colin Lang In the vast archive of literature from, and on, Hans Blumenberg, there are few mentions of theories of modern or contemporary art. Two exceptions exist, which both took place in 1966. One deals with the topic more obliquely: a lecture on Paul Valéry given at the Akademie der Künste...
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Beyond Lateness? “Postmemory” and the Late(st) German-Language Family Novel
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 137–153.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Kirstin Gwyer Once a corollary of modernity, a response to innovation and acceleration, manifesting itself as decadence, pessimism, or an apocalyptic sense of living in an age nearing its end, lateness in our more recent—postmodern(ist), posthistorical, posttraumatic—times has been revaluated...
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Decolonizing Reading Publics, Decompartmentalizing German Studies
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 119–131.
Published: 01 November 2023
... .” In Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk , 118 – 45 . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2007 . Mani B. Venkat . “ Finding Odysseus’s Scars Again: Hyperlinked Literary Histories in the Age of Refugees .” In Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural...
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The Drama in an Age of Fragmentation: Toward a New Reading of Georg Lukács's Evolutionary History of the Modern Drama
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 23–44.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Lebensphilosophie modern drama sociology of literature The Drama in an Age of Fragmentation:
Toward a New Reading of Georg Lukács’s
Evolutionary History of the Modern Drama
Konstantinos Kavoulakos
Georg Lukács is widely known as one...
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Singularly German in the Pluriverse
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 193–204.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and for making sense of community and belonging, while the discussion of “critique” suggests an approach that places German thought and literature in the pluriverse of thinking and imagination around the world. Finally, by tracing the morphing of the imperative of newness into singularity, the essay proposes...
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Epic Solutions of the “Goethe Problem” in Lukács and Moretti
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... containing thematically related essays: “Goethe and His Age” (dated 1934–36), “Faust Studies” (dated 1940), and “Thomas Mann” (in a version dated 1955). 2 The first two sections, originally published as articles during Lukács’s exile in Moscow, had appeared in book form twenty years earlier, in 1947...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2015
... has prompted
dire predictions of a global crisis from the social sciences—from economics to
psychology—and been answered in a vast popular literature that seeks to
address ways of not merely aging, but aging well.5
In the cultural sphere at least it has been welcomed as a more positive...
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Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207.
Published: 01 February 2007
... century and has since then become insti-
tutionally ossifi ed. In that post-Romantic age of nation building, Goethe’s pro-
posal was obviously less than successful. It remains doubtful whether our now
popular commitment to a global literature as somehow postnational will fare
any better...
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On Similarity in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 81–92.
Published: 01 November 2023
... new comparative perspectives in an age of global Holocaust memory. In a programmatic essay Rabinovici further explains how literature adapts the memory of the past to the demands of the present and the possibilities of the future, and how Holocaust memory itself will change as it is brought to bear...
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World Literature and Socialist Internationalism in the Weimar Republic: Five Theses
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... , 9:9–11, 92, 211, 396 . 35. Kisch, Gesammelte Werke , 9:9 . 36. See Jung, Jack London . 37. Kisch, Gesammelte Werke , 9:91–104 . 38. Denning, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds , 65 . 39. Beecroft, Ecology of World Literature , 229, 233 . 40. See...
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Alfred Andersch, the Cinéma des Auteurs , and the Poetics of Screenwriting
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 77–107.
Published: 01 February 2024
...” about Hiroshima (AG, 292). To sum up: Andersch understands film as a “visual form of literature.” The idea of a cinéma impur that he develops in the Merkur series is based on the principle of the literary (i.e., narrative) character of feature films. Medial self-referentiality is subordinate...
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“After the Massacre of Illusions”: Specters of the German Democratic Republic in the Work of Volker Braun
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the dominant concern with mortality, death, revenants, and specters in his recent work, especially Tumulus (1999) and Auf die schönen Possen ( Here's to the Good Times , 2005). This concern is read against broader international interests in lateness, old age, specters, and “hauntology,” gesturing especially...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 2021
... not one that was ready for publication. We can hardly be done with our interpretation if the author did not leave us a clear directive as to how we should even begin. Over the last half century the interpretative literature on Aesthetic Theory has flourished, though the lack of any consensus on its...
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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
... Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan . ———. 2013 . “Heimat als Identität und ökologisches Bewusstsein stiftender Faktor: Zu Ansätzen in Romanen um 1900 von Bruno Wille, Hermann Hesse und Josef Ponten.” In Natur und Moderne um 1900: Räume—Repräsentationen...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 1–8.
Published: 01 August 2023
... was a tipping point for his self-criticism, albeit not its utmost motivation; Lukács never renounced his revocation, even as the party line had already changed again. His essays on realism from the 1930s, widely circulated again today within the contexts of world literature and the reemergence of Marxist...
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Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
... by Julius Petersen.
Weimar: Böhlau.
Schmidt, Jochen. 2004. Die Geschichte des Genie-Gedankens in der deutschen Literatur,
Philosophie und Politik, 1750–1945. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Heidelberg: Winter.
Thomas, Derek. 2002. Architecture and the Urban Environment: A Vision for the New
Age...
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Katja Petrowskaja’s Translational Poetics of Memory
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Eneken Laanes A new perspective on Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther (2014) goes beyond earlier interpretations of the novel, which tend to privilege analytic frameworks of minor literatures, German Jewish literature, or Holocaust postmemory. This article reads the novel as cultivating...
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Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
...: Adorno on Wagner
Peter E. Gordon
On the dedication page to his 1952 book Versuch über Wagner, Theodor W.
Adorno includes the following epigraph: “Horses are the survivors from the
age of heroes” (Pferde sind die Überlebenden der Helden...
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The Kittler Effect
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing . Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum . ———. 1992 . “Literature in the Electronic Writing Space.” In Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers , edited by Tuman Myron C. , 19 – 42 . Pittsburgh...
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Erich Auerbach’s Figural Interpretation and the Uncanny Jew
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2025
... .” Philosophy and Literature 44 , no. 1 ( 2020 ): 35 – 51 . Withy Katherine . Heidegger on Being Uncanny . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2015 . Zakai Avihu , and Weinstein David . “ Erich Auerbach and His ‘Figura’: An Apology for the Old Testament in an Age...
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