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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 73–118.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Robert Kaufman New German Critique, Inc. 2006 Poetry’s Ethics? Theodor W. Adorno and
Robert Duncan on Aesthetic Illusion and
Sociopolitical Delusion
Robert Kaufman
Odds are that discussions of Adorno and the ethical...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 27–50.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Lukas Hoffman This article explores the revolutionary politics in Else Lasker-Schüler’s early poetry, particularly focusing on her 1905 poem “Erkenntnis” (“Knowledge”). The article argues that Lasker-Schüler’s poetic revision of the biblical garden myth presents a conception of abjected...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of a melancholic resistance of meaning. But I suggest that this resistance can be construed in terms of Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's readings of analogous resistance in Charles Baudelaire's poetry, which restages the social destruction of the subject as a socially normative “poetic event” unto itself...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., matrix for rethinking the “incomprehensible” in Holocaust representations along a spectrum of genres from memoir and poetry to documentary history. In the wake of emerging research on the “language situation” in the camps, Gramling explores texts that reanimate the multiple-language milieus of camp life...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Andrea Gyenge Abstract This article returns to the figure of the mouth in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry . While many scholars treat Lessing’s attention to the statue’s mouth as a sign of his contempt for the body, the article argues that Lessing’s...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
... that for her, Germany meant precisely “the mother tongue, the philosophy and the poetry.” Relying on thus far unacknowledged biographical and theoretical contrasts, this article aims to show that Schmitt and Arendt understand the political meanings of race and language in a radically different manner. 5...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 27–51.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Patrick Greaney This article expands the range of critical responses to nachschrift , Heimrad Bäcker's 1986 work that uses the methods of concrete and visual poetry to present quotations from documents about the Shoah. The article proposes that transcript should be considered not only...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Samuel Clowes Huneke Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between suicide and homosexual discourses in modern Germany. Considering literature, gay periodicals, mainstream newspapers, letters, plays, and poetry, it asks how authors came to correlate homosexuality so strongly...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 99–132.
Published: 01 August 2018
... refugee intellectuals antifascism and socialism collaboration literary relationships poetry In 1931, when the writer and actress Margarete Steffin met the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, she was prepared to be unimpressed. Working-class and active as a communist in Weimar Berlin, Steffin...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770–1870 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Recolonizing the Mind:
Gottfried Benn’s Primitivism
Joshua Dittrich
In this essay I argue that Gottfried Benn’s poetry of the 1920s...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 37–48.
Published: 01 August 2023
... as national heritage ( Erbe ) in the East. 8 By the 1960s Faust had been fully canonized as national poetry, with Faust’s land-gaining project regarded as an allegory of the young state’s own ambitions. 9 In contrast to the emotionally charged anticlassicism emerging in the West in the late 1960s...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of “world-historical opening” ( FT , 2). In “Poetry and Knowledge” (1944), Césaire, who modeled himself on Rimbaud, the poet as “clairvoyant,” attacked Europe’s instrumental rationality as lethal deindividualization, sacrificing human desires and fears, and celebrated the power of surrealism to explode...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 171–207.
Published: 01 November 2006
... (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 29.
23. Döblin, “Mein Buch Berlin Alexanderplatz,” 43.
Devin Fore 187
Döblinʼs references to Homer and to the tradition of ancient oral poetry
in “The Construction of the Epic Work” illuminate several...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 179–200.
Published: 01 August 2018
... it represents, as he comes to terms with the state of exception the military coup has enacted. At the same time, Hamit’s engagement with Bachmann’s poetry brings the space of the Ottoman pavilion to bear on larger cross-cultural concerns that also tie into his relationship with Hilde. The exaggerated matter...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 121–149.
Published: 01 November 2006
... struggles with not only the fact
of writing poetry within the chaos, overstimulation, fragmentation, and peer-
ing eyes of the city but the construction of a poetics of the metropolis itself.
Within this context, Rilkeʼs allusion to photography brings the techno-
logical apparatus into direct...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 9–38.
Published: 01 February 2011
...
Times, the burned and dismembered bodies that appear throughout The Patriot
testify to a history of violence. The Patriot configures wounds through phonic
inscriptions, documentary footage, poetry, and Kluge’s own narration: a voice
that speaks at times through the figure of a knee belonging...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 193–204.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and thought sometimes referred to as the Kunstepoche , there was no shortage of projects of infusing aesthetic values into society, as epitomized by Schlegel’s call “to make poetry lively and social and to make life and society poetic.” 23 Goethe tried to design his life as if it were a work of art, 24...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... Again, as Axel Goodbody shows in his discussion of
GDR nature poetry, in the 1980s, particularly, “lyric ‘Abfallandschaften’ [gar-
bage landscapes] . . . were realistic descriptions and simultaneously emblems
of political stagnation and individual alienation.”9 In other words, the experi-
ence...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 131–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... only in the second case, where Benja-
min himself emphasizes its ambiguity; already the cultic creation of a perva-
17. See Michel Riffaterre, The Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1978).
18. Weber, Benjamin’s-abilities, 66...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 1–26.
Published: 01 November 2010
... translations
published by Buber. See, e.g., ibid.
Lina Barouch 9
attempt to formulate his own literary theory (Dichtungstheorie), in that it
describes the birth of poetry out of a figure of destruction. She concludes this
from Scholem’s translations...
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