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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 9–35.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of comparison for his later and better-known works, especially in Soul and Form (1911), The Theory of the Novel (1916), and History and Class Consciousness (1923). This framework can reconnect Lukács’s early theory of literary genres to contemporary debates on form in literature, epistemology, and political...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 133–153.
Published: 01 August 2018
... literary form, as a nonindexical linguistic device to resist the harm and violence brought about through a language used for classification and delineation, and as a poetic figure to write an impossible conversation into existence. References André Robert . 2001 . Gespräche von Text zu Text...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Markus Wilczek This article considers the significance of temporality for the discourses of ecology and posthumanism. Focusing on Goethe's approach to water both in his administrative and in his literary writings, it argues that literary texts provide an opportunity to experiment with forms...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
...” replaces reality after the end of the “critical age.” Copyright © 2020 by New German Critique, Inc. 2020 Alexander Kluge literary form question commentary context Commentaries on the work of Karl Marx have a long history. Political and academic exegeses, avant-garde attempts, and self...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2011
... tensions in Weber's theory of charisma, this article points to the essentially aesthetic aspects of charisma. As a form of leadership, charisma not only fundamentally depends on the imaginations and affects that the charismatic leader can raise in the hearts and minds of his followers; it also depends...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in the understanding of Heimat , which has paralleled developments in both spatial and ecocritical theory. It proposes that literary representations of the homeland can facilitate an alternative form of dwelling involving a new kind of attachment to place and a nondualist relationship with nature. The second part...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... made it both possible and necessary to engage anew the question of form in literature. The answers are therefore to be found in Goethe’s and Schiller’s contributions to genre theory: “the demand for clarity about the connections between and the differences among literary genres” (ZH, 42). Above all...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
Published: 01 February 2018
... these with the literary reportage style of Egon Erwin Kisch. Its similarity to Der Querschnitt reveals the dialectical engagement of Berlin’s artist and journalist circles with mass cultural forms, including tourism. While guidebooks diversified to accommodate a modern “art-loving” demographic that ridiculed both...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the literary portrayal of trashy, ruinous spaces, Hilbig invokes the power of disgust as a form of resistance and of protest against both the legacy of the German Democratic Republic and the consumer capitalist environment of unified Germany. Trash and Transformation:
The Search for Identity in Wolfgang...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
Published: 01 August 2012
... that must be defended against ideology and politics. A second mode concerns the dense network of literary allusions that seemingly endorses the protagonists' symbolic world. However, on a third, self-reflexive level, the narrative voice introduces a distancing effect that undermines the reader's...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 51–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
... by scholars in countless literary studies claiming that hybrid actors and multivoiced narratives have replaced passive tales of suffering. More recent novels replace the heterogeneity and freedom of narrative agents with their experiential vulnerability and perceptions of discrimination. The central thesis...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
Published: 01 November 2022
... inconspicuous dialectical oppositions are pried out with the help of semiotic squares and therewith rendered into a “veritable system.” 1 To readers familiar with Jameson’s outlines for a dialectical criticism of literary form from 1971, his case in 2005 for the contemporary afterlife of The Aesthetics...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 155–174.
Published: 01 November 2018
... skeptical attitude to the genre. Yet his reflections on satire and hate might at least subvert the idea that there was once a better age, during which literary provocations were tied to common moral purposes. For Lukács, satire is a polemical and even vicious art form, a medium for explosive negative affect...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2020
... between literary form and sharp-sighted film interpretation, which increasingly falls short in a publishing market dominated primarily by marketing interests or academic micro-interests. Additionally, the engagement of young writers who are at a remove from the genre [ genrefremd ] is supposed to use...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 111–154.
Published: 01 February 2018
..., but the nineteenth-century form of it” (“Auerbach’s Literary History,” 138).
13. The concepts of historical development and continuity were rst articulated by Herder in
Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte (1774), which, as Frederick Beiser notes, is generally consid-
ered “the grand foundational work...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the specifics of literary form (which he also refers to as “technique” [ APF , 214]) with the forms that we encounter in the social world. By recognizing these same forms in literature and art, she fails to understand the singular character of aesthetic form. Robinson suggests that, as a consequence, Levine’s...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 23–44.
Published: 01 February 2015
... concept, the concept of form. On the one hand, the
latter has an aesthetico-philosophical character and is an evaluative condition
for the constitution of the object of literature, since “without form there is no
literary phenomenon.” Thus “what in the praxis of criticism and in the history...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 185–213.
Published: 01 February 2022
... return in the next section—thematized the conceptual prerequisites for the historical emergence of the novel as a literary form. In contrast to an authorial poetics concerned with individual text production processes and principles, Blumenberg’s historical poetics aims at conceptual changes that fall...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 175–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in German
literary culture: as “Stoff,” as “Form,” and finally as “Gehalt.” DefiningGehalt
philosophically at this point might require defining what it means for Adorno,
and that is beyond the scope of this article.7 Gundolf uses the word more sim-
ply, to mean that Shakespeare became substantial...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... married a German citizen. What new “touching tales,” transnational affinities, and social imaginations does Petrowskaja’s novel activate in its literary form? 15 This article argues that it is necessary to go beyond the disciplinary frames of German Jewish literature and Holocaust postmemory...
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