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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 119–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
... (grotesques). Situated in its proper historical and intellectual context, Friedländer's early-twentieth-century corpus thus should be understood as part of an effort to incorporate the diversity of human sensory experiences into a Kantian-influenced theory of knowledge, a theory of knowledge critical...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 73–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... trace of it, a big round eye, is removed. Shortly before nodding off, Keaton himself looks from the wall into the face of Buster Keaton. The insight that this grotesque conveys is then not simply refuting Berkeley, a sim- ple reversal, for in the end nonbeing cannot only not be produced by taking...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): np.
Published: 01 February 2009
...?” The Thought of the Outside and Its Various Incarnations . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Stéphane Symons “The Merely Illusory Paradise of Habits”: Salomo Friedländer, Walter Benjamin, and the Grotesque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Thomas O. Haakenson The Phenomenology...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the chamber theater of the bunker, was stylized into a kind of megatheater: “You long to mock these solemn, murdering Nazi ‘idealists,’ female as well as male. The movie errs in treating even the most grotesquely sordid episodes as tragedy (accompanied by Purcell’s most dignifi ed music22 19...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
...? Or to the dogs) (SP, 38). All these figures appear in the midst of a blasted landscape, which is part stinking suburb, part graveyard, part grotesque capitalist nightmare. Some concepts are mourned, like “ gemei n besitz” (common ow n er- sh i p), promised but never...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... correspondence, where detailed plans for his “fantastic, grotesque fi lms,” as well as additional documents, help reconstruct Andrés Mario Zervigón 11 the realized works. Next the essay considers the cinematic context in which these fi lms would have intervened before...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 155–174.
Published: 01 November 2018
... populations in ways that are caustic and provocative but nonetheless rely on and reconfirm shared moral values that are being violated. 6 The standard example is Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal , with its argument that poor families ought to sell children as food. Swift’s grotesque...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 49–64.
Published: 01 August 2006
... Müller and Posthumous Provocation history is presented as a grotesque tragicomic revue that shifts willy-nilly between realistic, surrealistic, expressionistic, and quoted episodes. Here, as already suggested, there is less of a tendency to smooth the edges into a the- matically streamlined...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., the viewer wonders, like that ? Do they know how grotesque they are? It seems as if they don’t” (A, 36). It has been claimed that in Struth’s and Dijkstra’s images, the sitters play a determinant role, and Fried concurs, arguing that Struth’s photographs are not entirely determined by the photographer. He...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
... (semiotic) nourishment and subsistence to those who could not do without it. For him, memoir was a curative activity, one that must triage and detour around the grotesque fact of incommensurability—it responds to such opacity with impatience and acute alarm. Kafka, in contrast, traffics only within...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 113–136.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., its leaders released from concen- tration camps to that explicit end. Any pretense of self-determination was removed, as Gestapo Rückgespräche replaced institutional oversight by the Prussian cultural commissioner. In grotesque fashion, the theater wing of the Kulturbund opened...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
... performers to the female audience, suggestive of the town’s sexual repression. Figures 2 and 3 show a close-up of a grotesquely large egg being broken into a frying pan; an entire bird, rather than egg yolk and white that might be expected, falls out and sizzles on the pan, but nobody acts surprised...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2024
... dancing troupe follows an intertitle that reads “African grotesque dancing.” 44 The intertitle “The diva’s favorite little dog” is followed by a hippopotamus; “The spokesman of the Berlin Radio . . . ,” by a talking parrot; “Lil Dagover at breakfast,” a reference to the white, Weimar-era actress...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 151–170.
Published: 01 November 2006
... on the screen of the movie theater, perhaps immedi- ately after a grotesque scene of the basest nature has been presented at the same place.35 The alarming tone of this passage testifi es to the terror of cinemato- graphic reproduction. Cohnʼs passionate call for protecting his own image...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 159–185.
Published: 01 November 2022
... included embodiments of monsters of political repression as real now as in Brueghel’s time. The huge grotesque face framing the entrance to hell on the left, “the gaping gob, from which a teeming cloaca was gushing forth, it was the tyrant who had installed his reign in all countries in which the struggle...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 75–86.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., A German Friendship (1985), is a Super-8 feature about the private life of the young Hitler (a role played by Karmakar himself, wearing a false mustache) from the perspective of a fi ctional friend. In its anarchic and grotesque humor, the fi lm was an attempt to express the nineteen-year-old...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 101–126.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., nuanced study. To be sure, Flanner was not the only reporter struck by Göring’s coordinated spectacle—another New Yorker journalist, Rebecca West, lingered over his “coarse brown skin of an actor” and “plotting eyes” looking “facetiously around.”2 Grotesquely magnetic, Göring’s projected self...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2021
... a painful spectacle, destitute of the beauty which alone could turn our pain into the sweet feeling of pity for the suffering object” ( L , 14). Invoking the grotesque nature of an “imaginary,” Laocoön also seems to suit Lessing’s additional critical task here: to demonstrate that a truly mimetic...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... fascination for dirt, nightmare, and the grotesque of sexual perversion, which fails to realize its purpose and its character, causing malaise, revolt, without even understanding against who or what.” 33 Charlotte Lacoste, in one of the most detailed criticisms of the novel, argues that Littell’s premise...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 129–161.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., according to his accent, of a taller stature), another second lieutenant (smaller, dark-skinned), and a major, who entered later (bald, protruding ears, blue eyes, according to his behavior probably a superintendent).12 Unlike Kafka’s doubles, Goldstücker’s grotesque interrogators came...