... and never truly “works,” revealing literature's fragile dimension. Fragility not only addresses the vulnerability of bare human life but conveys the condition of literary and cultural studies, torn between ethical responsibility and the continuous threat to fail in the process. With a genealogical approach...

... 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...

...Or Rogovin Abstract The image of the perpetrator in Israeli Holocaust fiction changed fundamentally in the mid-1980s: from one-dimensional Nazi beasts, typical of earlier Israeli writing, to humanized individuals, whose vulnerability and multidimensionality may blur the divide between victims...

... social vulnerability. To some degree, this is what all Kleist’s literary works do, and sometimes they even evoke the concept of vul- nerability while doing it. In the short story “Michael Kohlhaas,” for instance, the title character does not trust his otherwise reliable groom, because Kohl...

... the form of Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and her conception of abject subjectivity, arguing that her early poetry presents us with a politics of vulnerability and solidarity with the outcasts of society. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by New German Critique, Inc. 2024 abject theory...

... with an aura at a particular time and place. No doubt this aura, too, is vulnerable to decay, but the work continues to awaken new thoughts well after the aura has dissolved. We will never be done reading Aesthetic Theory . It is admittedly the case for any work of philosophical importance that the task...

...Roger Foster Foster argues that Theodor W. Adorno's interpretation of Franz Kafka makes possible an understanding of literature's critical role in society while avoiding the twin pitfalls of reducing the literary work's significance to an echo of contemporary social and political ideas...

...B. Venkat Mani This essay focuses on the contemporary German literary public spheres, zooming in on the relation between a republic and its reading public. In the fraught political topography of contemporary Germany, marked by the arrival and eventual acceptance of over one million Syrian refugees...

... Deutschland ) made explicit, it is now the time for literary intellectuals to write in a way that will enable or enact transformations within historical time. 2 Ahistorical and utopian, Jünger’s Arbeiter depicts, at most, a muscular ideal in search of an ideological trajectory. It demonstrates the kinds...

... and Contempo- rary Visual Culture,” in Benjamin’s Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. Gerhard Richter (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 95–117; Willem van Reijen, “Breathing the Aura—the Holy, the Sober Breath,” Theory, Culture, and Society 18, no. 6...

... 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. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 On May 16, 1960...

... their settlements against the sea, the North Frisians had in effect made themselves and their domestic animals more vulnerable to major disaster, as light to moderate more or less annual flooding was replaced by a catastrophic deluge around once a century. The first recorded “flood of the century...

... and effective literary cooperation they achieved was of primary importance. This fresh reading of the poems presents historicized insights into Brecht’s use of imagery and suggests a way forward for scholarship of collaborative literary relationships. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018...

... Freiligrathʼs gloomy politi cal poem “Deutschland ist Hamlet” (1844) and its equation of Germany—and its failure to achieve national unity—with Shake- speareʼs indecisive hero is perhaps the most well-known literary example, it is hardly unique. Hamlet was interpreted both positively and negatively...

... obscure. Moreover, the sec- ondary literature, far from clarifying, adds to the uncertainty. One thing, how- ever, seems apparent: Arendt wrote this text to challenge, even decimate, cer- tain assumptions about literary, philosophical, and political categories. A precise understanding of the implicit...

... awareness of a problem for which “the reluctance of observers to enquire into how the trauma happened” presents an “important feature of the syndrome,” 3 as Selwyn M. Smith affirms in The Battered Child Syndrome . This seemingly empirical account of child abuse thereby opens onto a literary...

... (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 304–5. 5. Sarah Dillon, “Reinscribing De Quincey’s Palimpsest: The Significance of the Palimpsest in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies,” Textual Practice 19, no. 3 (2005): 245. For discus- sion of the distinction between “palimpsestic” and “palimpsestuous...

... Katharina . 2014 . “Störfälle: Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima.” German Studies Review 37 , no. 1 : 131 – 48 . Gutjahr Ortrud . 2012 . “Vom Hafen aus: Meere und Schiffe, die Flut und das Fluide in Yoko Tawadas Hamburger Poetikvorlesungen.” In Gutjahr , Yoko Tawada...

... construction, Riefenstahl’s body is the fi lm’s erotic locus and becomes the spectacle of transcendent visibility. Her singular image of sexual vulnerability and artistic authority resonates beyond both stadium and screen, establishing its own charged transaction with the captive viewer that Flanner...

... Alterity, Historical Narrative, and Literary Riddles for the 1990s,” New German Critique, no. 80 (2000): 93–124; Friederike Eigler, Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromanen seit der Wende (Berlin: Schmidt, 2005); and Margaret Littler, “Guilt, Victimhood, and Identity in Zafer Şenocak’s...