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Translating Catastrophes: Yoko Tawada's Poetic Responses to the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake, the Tsunami, and Fukushima

Kathrin Maurer
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 171–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329247
Published: 01 February 2016
...' attempts to observe, to understand; by appeals for aid; and by the surrounding waters that link the island with the world. This article unfolds Tawada's poetic model for translating disasters and its epistemological dimensions in relation to futurity, theology, and geopolitics. Translating Catastrophes...
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Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965290
Published: 01 November 2022
... for the reader’s open-ended political and aesthetic education. In its poetic structure the novel conceives the future not as determined and predictable but as an ocean of uncertainty with a few always fragile islands of predictability. Aside from Géricault’s fading painting in the Louvre, the narrator names...
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Recolonizing the Mind: Gottfried Benn's Primitivism

Joshua Dittrich
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329187
Published: 01 February 2016
... and evanescence of an archaic poetic world in the midst of the alienated bodies and minds of European modernity. In the colonialist phase (exemplified in poems like “Palau,” “Easter Island,” “Orphic Cells,” or the ones I have singled out for analysis here: “Only When” and “East Africa a similar array...
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Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Louis Klee
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 99–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9305519
Published: 01 November 2021
...Louis Klee If we conceive of Austerlitz in these terms, mindful of its poetics of association, it is a work that considers exile in form as much as in narrative. To create and maintain interconnections ( Zusammenhänge ) thus appears as the ground for dwelling, while exile lies in the sensation...
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The Poetic Power of Theory

Alexander Kluge, Leslie A. Adelson
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908350
Published: 01 February 2020
...Alexander Kluge; Leslie A. Adelson Abstract The roots of theory lie in the spirit of resistance and “essential powers” that Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant ascribed to human beings. The poetic power of social life seeks and finds counter-algorithmic expression through narrative capacities...
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From “German Wolfhounds” to “Ordinary People”: Characterizations of Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction

Or Rogovin
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 65–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546167
Published: 01 August 2019
... shift in modes of perpetrator characterization in terms of its poetics and its place in Israel’s literary history. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 43. For an extended discussion of the topic, see Rogovin, “‘Count Him a Human Being.’” 44. Segev, Seventh Million...
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Brains: Forms of Life in Gottfried Benn’s Rönne Novellas

Andreas Gailus
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6684118
Published: 01 August 2018
... and its relation to poetic practice more evident than in Benn’s so-called Rönne novellas: “Brains” (“Gehirne,” 1914), “Conquest” (“Die Eroberung,” 1915), “The Journey” (“Die Reise,” 1915), “Birthday” (“Der Geburtstag,” 1916), and “The Island” (“Die Insel,” 1916). 4 Written during Benn’s tenure...
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What Is Heideggerian Cinema? Film, Philosophy, and Cultural Mobility

Martin Woessner
New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 129–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1221803
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Linda, played by Linda Manz—Malick’s second film is more fragmentary, elliptical, and poetic than its predecessor. Badlands interspersed scenes of natural beauty throughout its road-movie plot. In Days of Heaven, however, it is difficult to discern whether the images of the natural world...
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A Certain Tendency in German Film Criticism of the Postwall Era

Eric Rentschler
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 33–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607563
Published: 01 November 2020
... existentialists cultivated a highly personalized, indeed rarefied form of poetic empiricism. This study analyzes their sensibility and rhetoric, their emphases and oversights. It focuses on Dominik Graf’s essay film, Was heißt hier Ende? ( Then Is It the End? , 2015), a tribute to Althen and the cohort of young...
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Heimat as Nonplace and Terrain Vague in Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung and Julia Schoch's Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers

Mary Cosgrove
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 63–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550863
Published: 01 August 2012
...-Morales, describes the unused spaces of postindustrial urban settings. These unincorporated margins, inte- rior islands void of activity, or forgotten spatial oversights that “exist outside the city’s effective circuits and productive structures” are uninhabited, unsafe, and unproductive.2 Yet Solà...
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Ephemeral Spaces and Pneumatic Architecture: The Films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Fatima Naqvi
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727455
Published: 01 November 2019
... receded, a disused slate mine that became a car dump in Ceredigion, Wales, or Hashima Island near Nagasaki Peninsula. I recognize the New Jersey Jet Star roller coaster left behind after Hurricane Sandy. Since there are no intertitles, no dialogue, and no humans, viewers are forced to scan the long...
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The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos

Daniel Purdy
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 41–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-010
Published: 01 November 2006
... geographic appreciation of how society was changing, yet he positioned himself very differently. If “poetic realists” sought to preserve traditional culture virtually by cataloging it in their fi ctions, Loos urged the rapid distribution of just those forces that promised or threatened...
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“My Program Is Still Broader Than the Sea”: Gershom Scholem’s Letters to Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1940–1953

Emanuel Fiano, Samuel J. Kessler
New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 179–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10140806
Published: 01 February 2023
... divine mystery, woven with the belief that humanity possesses the key to God’s throne room but cannot locate its lock. In this collection the expression of human longings and fears allows Heschel to translate the Hasidic Stimmung into a modern poetic idiom. These poems anticipated the system Heschel...
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Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability

Markus Wilczek
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511931
Published: 01 August 2016
... and had flooded river after river. Dams had burst, and the area below the manor lay as a smooth lake, from which villages, farms, larger and smaller estates, set as they were on high ground, stuck out like islands.”36 Immediately after describing the immense flooding in a way that seems apt...
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Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows: Distributed Agency in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter

Kate Rigby
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511919
Published: 01 August 2016
... that Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann term “material ecocriticism.”14 Attending to the triple framing of the dramatic action of Goethe’s two-part play, along with its poetic imagery of interweaving flows, Sullivan reinterprets Faust as “questioning rather than exemplifying human control over nature...
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Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall

Kate Rigby
New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-005
Published: 01 August 2007
... capitalism. Kate Rigby, Topographies of the Sacred: Romanticism, Ecology, and the Poetics of Place (Char- lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004); and Jonathan Bate, ed., “Green Romanticism,” special issue, Studies in Romanticism 35, no. 3 (1996). 3. Christa Wolf, Störfall: Nachrichten...
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Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

Ido Ramati
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 179–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2753648
Published: 01 November 2014
... (“A Poetics of Exile and Return,” in Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination [Berkeley: University of Cali- fornia Press, 2000], 3–23). 184  Between Israel and Germany In her study on return documentaries, Janet Walker investigated the space of trauma.9 She showed...
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Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut's Translations out of Germany

Esra Akcan
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 7–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-009
Published: 01 November 2006
... Translation in British Social Anthropology,” in Writing Cul- ture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ed. James Clifford and George Marcus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 141–64; Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Marx- ism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary...
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On Human Involution: Posthumanist Anthropology and the Question of Ecology in the Work of Hans Blumenberg and Niklas Luhmann

Hannes Bergthaller
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 83–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511883
Published: 01 August 2016
...” in a manner that foreshadows his direction: “It can scarcely be doubted that the reality of human language is nowhere the reality of such [authentic or poetic] saying. If that is a fact of ontological forgetfulness, then one would have to say that man can only live in such forgetfulness.”24...
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The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image

Stefan Andriopoulos
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 151–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-014
Published: 01 November 2006
... im malayischen Archipel,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 22 (1890): 493–500, esp. 494–95: “People in the cities do not mind being photographed. . . . But on the more remote islands it was often quite diffi cult to fi nd willing subjects, despite [our offering] many presents. People there believe...
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