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... in the present, but they themselves are configured as both the new Jewish victims and the agents who mourn the Holocaust dead. The ultimate gesture in this study is to take a step beyond this Antigone paradigm as it pertains to the discourse of mourning and melancholia in relation to postwar German history...

...Pamela Wojcik This essay considers the meaning and value of Miriam Hansen's notion of vernacular modernism through an examination of films starring the Dead End Kids. It argues that the contradictions of modernity are played out through the figure of the child in these films by balancing a kind...

... ) and militate against amnesia or the fetishization of the real. The article concludes by asking what the return of the dead in Braun's work means for the Berlin Republic. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 “After the Massacre of Illusions”: Specters of the German Democratic Republic in the Work...

.... New German Critique 98, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2006 DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2006-001 © 2006 by New German Critique, Inc. 1 2 Müllerʼs Memory Work Reed bristles Dead branches THIS TREE SHALL NOT GROW OVER ME Fish corpses...

... was interested, specifically, in the dialogue that myth makes possible across historical time. It contains transmissions from the deep past. From this “utopia in reverse”—to borrow another formulation from Huyssen7—myth becomes in Müller the medium for a necromantic conversa- tion between living and dead...

... of an exhibition to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (see Kékesi, Agents of Liberation , 142–48 ). 46. If, as Landry argues, Nelly’s choice of song is a dedication to Lene, her dead friend, it prefigures Petzold’s dedication to Bauer ( “Body without a Face,” 202...

... sense as a near paranormal existence as the homeless, spectral living dead. (The English word uncanny does not fully capture this combined sense of “homeless” and “ghostly.”) Auerbach connects the uncanny with the cursed condition of Jewry when he refers to “the feeling of the uncanny, the cursed...

... is already dead, and in “Dying Today” he argues that since Auschwitz fearing death means fearing worse than death, namely, the systematic production of the death-in-life that was the essence of the rationality of the camps (ND, 368–73). While it is evident that Adorno means his remarks to urge us...

...Jonathan Kalb New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Germania 3: Gespenster am toten Mann: Heiner Müller and the Art of Posthumous Provocation Jonathan Kalb Germania 3: Gespenster am Toten Mann, or Germania 3: Ghosts at the Dead Man...

... dizzying ideas. Yet The Magic Mountain is a book about the body or, rather, about many bodies: those of the ill and the dead, of the doctors and the philosophers. And, as his diaries inform us, Mann was interested, during the composition of his novel, in “a new conception of man as a mind-body entity...

... and mockery to the living—to speak up for the dead.”12 He also attempts to find a way to convey the unimaginable reality: “Try to grasp the essence of its pattern of daily events, discarding your sense of horror and loathing and contempt, and find for it all a philosophic formula. For the gas...

..., Dresden,” H-Soz-u-Kult, December 4, 2008, hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungs berichte/id=2403; Friedrich Reichert, “Fakten, Dokumente und Bilder über den Luftkrieg gegen Dresden 1944/45,” Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 10 (2004): 274. The number of dead in Dresden has been heavily contested...

... : Grove , 2009 . Bernstein J. M. “ The Dead Speaking of Stones and Stars: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory .” In The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory , edited by Rush Fred , 139 – 64 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2004 . Bernstein J. M. “ Negative Dialectics...

... already declared himself dead, only to reinvent himself. Lukács’s early writings, inspired by both neo-Kantianism and the German vitalist movement known as Lebensphilosophie , appeared even to himself of merely faint historical interest after his conversion to Marxism in 1918. In a later foreword...

..., expressed through the emotions and thoughts of the first-person narrator: “The dead leave their chill in this spot from which the sun has now withdrawn. I wonder if the cold that is making me shiver also has something to do with the evening and with the forest creeping up to the houses. The light rushes up...

.... In book 11 of the Odyssey , Odysseus has sailed beyond the end of the world to reach the underworld, a katabatic mission fraught with danger. Sent by Circe the witch to consult with the seer Tiresias on further clues about how to make it home to Ithaca, the epic hero of reason must commune with the dead...

.... In the case of Meinhof, Ensslin, Baader, and Raspe, images of their dead bodies did not offer proof for the state’s explanation of their deaths: the photos do not confi rm suicide nor do they prove murder on the part of the state. These images cannot relate history or tell stories. Richter intensifi es...

... her brother’s film. To see her father differently than she “wants to” would challenge her memory of him; more important, it would require her to reconsider who she and her family are. Confronting the archi- val evidence would complicate or challenge her loving attachment to her dead father...

... for us or when we use it, the collector can be said both to be concerned with a form of possession that appears independent of the sphere of capitalist conventions and to be himself the owner of dead or at least dormant objects.14 11. In his 1935 letter to Benjamin, Adorno accuses Benjamin...