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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 77–100.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Michael D. Richardson New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Allegories and Ends: Heiner Müllerʼs Ham letmaschine Michael D. Richardson When the Deutsches Theater Berlin reopened on September 7, 1945, its selec- tion for its premiere was signifi cant...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 69–97.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Andrew McCann This essay sets out an approach to Theodor Adorno’s rearticulation of the idea of natural history that foregrounds the undecidable relationship between symbol and allegory. This relationship is the structural condition of Ernst Jünger’s writing, from his protofascist journalism...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
... , which reads the hero’s epic journey as an allegory for the emergence of subjectivity. Horkheimer and Adorno interpret Homer’s female characters as sensual forces of nature that Odysseus must resist in his quest for homecoming. Yet, conspicuously absent from Horkheimer and Adorno’s analysis—and previous...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135.
Published: 01 February 2006
...,” that is, the supposition “that artworks unfold in their philosophical interpretation.”7 Adorno’s conception of the vexed but necessary relation between philo­ sophical commentary and the work of art is brought into further relief when we relate it to a specific rhetorical figure: allegory. As the literary critic...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 111–154.
Published: 01 February 2018
... in “Figura” (1938) and in key chapters of Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946). The most important scholarly contributions on Auerbach’s concept of history include White, “Auerbach’s Literary His- tory”; Gellrich, “Figura, Allegory, and the Question of History...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
...: the destructive character. In these various figures, Benjamin’s political thought—and his approach to political thinking through dialectical images—comes into sharper relief. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 Walter Benjamin Benjamin Constant allegory aleatory materialism destructive...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Apocalyptic History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). Christopher Conti  103 Adam Thirlwell’s pun.12 Brod was obliged to present Kafka’s posthumous fragments to publishers as finished novels, and modernist allegory fit the bill, but his influence...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... as national heritage ( Erbe ) in the East. 8 By the 1960s Faust had been fully canonized as national poetry, with Faust’s land-gaining project regarded as an allegory of the young state’s own ambitions. 9 In contrast to the emotionally charged anticlassicism emerging in the West in the late 1960s...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
...,” 15 – 24 . Keller Wolfram R. , and Uffmann Christian . “ Careful . . . Canadians: Guy Maddin’s Allegory of Canadian Identity .” In Screening Canadians: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Canadian Film , edited by Keller Wolfram R. and Walz Gene , 161 – 82 . Marburg...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... as Religion. Ignoring the text’s details, I discern different problems on its differ- ent levels, which I outline as paratext, structure, metaphorics, allegory, and intertextuality, all of them related to wider discursive and contextual debates. Paratext The text’s title seems to be a provocative...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 17–34.
Published: 01 November 2011
... more than on the ceiling of the theatre, painted with lifeless allegories, it was as though I had seen, thanks 14. Erich Auerbach, “The Scar of Odysseus,” in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953), 3–23. 26 Aura...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 175–198.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of specific literary-aesthetic categories—pathos, rhythm, melody, allegory—Nietzsche’s theory of meta- physical mimesis.”18 Most significantly, he suggests, the expressionist notion of allegory takes over the structure exhibited in the conjoining of the Apollonian image and Dionysian truth...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., representing it again and again, transmuting it into the allegory of all allegories, the very meaning-giving emblem for the condition of transcendental lack of meaning, an object that stands for a missing subject, death that stands for life, creaturely life that stands for its own overcoming, and the specter...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
Published: 01 August 2022
... From Caligari to Hitler . His theory is absolutely false.” 29. Lang’s 1943 reinterpretation of The Testament as an allegory of Hitler’s terror in fact betrays the same political impulse and retrospective analysis of Weimar cinema as the Caligari book, much to Kracauer’s chagrin and Lang’s...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... humor” (“Fetish- Character,” 297). Adorno sees such an aspect taking form in the Marx Broth- ers’ musical comedies: This experience was caught with great force in a fi lm by the Marx brothers, who demolish an opera set as if to clothe in allegory the insight of the phi- losophy...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 35–45.
Published: 01 August 2014
... undone through the process that Freud describes. Trauerspiel overcomes death’s violence and restless haunting through the Medusa-like petrifying gaze of allegory. But even immobilized, death’s hold can persist as petrifaction in the form of the fascinated gaze of melancholy that freezes the viewer...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... a fatal pact with the devil, an allegory of Germany’s pact with Hitler. Of course, the Nazis had branded modern art as “degenerate” in their 1937 denunciatory exhibition, Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art), as Mann was well aware. At a deeper level, however, Nazism was never simply the antag- onist...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 111–139.
Published: 01 February 2007
... eventually write to Adorno years later, “when one takes it merely as allegory for ‘Germany’” (BAM, 141 [March 8, 1954 The allegorical ambition to represent the present in a sovereign aes- thetic gesture is thereby fastened to that present, Mann concedes. As polit- ical allegory the diagnosis itself has...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., which most recently Giorgio Agamben has made central to various speculative claims. John Brenkman  17 renewal of archaic violence. The sequence is an allegory in Paul de Man’s sense of the figure of speech, which represents a set of coexisting elements...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 53–88.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... Thus Hitler fl ies free, elsewhere, swastika displayed brazenly on his backside, to engage in the (deadly) imperialist expansionist politics that Marxist theory sees as the inevitable outcome of capitalist overproduction. Heartfi eld uses natural history to offer an allegory of political history...