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Worldly Possessions: Nietzsche's Texts, American Readers, and the Intimacy and Itinerancy of Ideas
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 25–50.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... The letters thus shed light on how Nietzsche's texts traversed national, cultural, and linguistic borders, while helping reconstitute them in the imaginations of his American readers. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc. 2011 Worldly Possessions:
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For Future Reference: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Peter Weiss’s Poetics of Parataxis and Scenes of Walking
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., by sensitizing its recipients to differentiated ways of engaging with textual gaps, the novel presents itself as a medium of historical orientation toward futures not articulated in the text itself. The novel’s implied future readers share the novel’s concern with emancipation of the oppressed, but the protocols...
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Choose Your Own Adventure
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 149–161.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Leila Mukhida What if critique were understood as a form of Choose Your Own Adventure, the second-person young adult format in which readers are given the agency to decide what happens next in a story? To embark on critique as you would Choose Your Own Adventure is to be intentional in your...
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Intermediality and the Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 231–252.
Published: 01 August 2009
... token, Kluge decontextualizes images and their rootedness in collective memories, facilitating the individual reader's reappropriation of both image and text. In providing these interpretations, the essay highlights the most important theoretical influences on Kluge's literary mnemoscapes...
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The Image of Happiness We Harbor: The Messianic Power of Weakness in Cohen, Benjamin, and Paul
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Eric Bulson Gravity's Rainbow is known for, among other things, its authentic historical representation of London during the V-2 Blitz. Strangely enough, critics have continued to ignore that other city, Berlin, which occupies almost as much space in the novel and presents readers with a harrowing...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that understands the novel as deliberately opening itself up to future readings, a text conceived and structured to engage readers of not-yet-determined futures. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by New German Critique, Inc. 2022 This content is made freely...
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Queer Spectrality and the Hope of Heterolingual Address
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 25–35.
Published: 01 November 2023
... onto the possibility of a forthcoming counter-address marked by queer spectrality, the novel prompts readers to engage in an open-ended process of community formation by rethinking their own modes of address and the myriad power structures that undergird them. While Dschinns narrates the period...
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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
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the novel’s reception assumes, Weiss plays subversively with mask narration. The narrator’s selective reading of Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa guides readers to a complex assessment of the costs and deformations necessitated by the narrator’s promise to remain part of the antifascist resistance...
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Hermann Hesse's Colonial Uncanny: Robert Aghion , 1913
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 199–218.
Published: 01 November 2014
...John Zilcosky Hermann Hesse's readers associate him with the “East” yet generally ignore his earliest writing on the topic: the mixed-genre masterpiece about India, Robert Aghion (1913). I argue that Aghion is a sophisticated critique of colonialism in which no one is innocent, not even...
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Verfehlungen : Hans Blumenberg and the United States
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 105–121.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a German to an American or Anglophone context particularly difficult. Looking at Paradigms for a Metaphorology and The Legitimacy of the Modern Age , the article examines the timing and framing of translation, as well as the unique difficulties that Blumenberg's work poses for the modern theory reader. ©...
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Death Writes: Franz Kafka, Tubercular Soundscapes, and the Place of Literature
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 31–55.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., and, ultimately, reader as a series of encounters and provocations that transform capacities and faculties and perturb time and space. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by New German Critique, Inc. 2025 Franz Kafka “Der Bau,” medical humanities sound studies auscultation...
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Work on Charisma: Writing Hitler's Biography
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 95–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the social and psychological context in which it manifests itself. Fest's narrative technique emphasizes the aesthetics of National Socialist politics, rendering Hitler's theatrical style palpable to a modern reader. Having been a contemporary repulsed by National Socialism, the article argues, Fest thereby...
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Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm
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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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Ideology in Execution: On Hitler's Mein Kampf
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Albrecht Koschorke Adolf Hitler, with his manifesto Mein Kampf , was among the first of several twentieth-century dictators who founded their regimes on their books' cult followings. For uninitiated readers, Hitler introduces his “transformation into an anti-Semite” as a crisis of conversion, one...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., theory turns out to be more than a succession of mere
ideas. It has to be considered an “institution” comprising such mundane enti-
ties as authors and readers and publishers and media, that is, a material culture
and intellectual practices that went along with it.10 What is more, relevant...
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Was Nicht im “Baedeker” Steht: Exploring Art, Mass Culture, and Antitourism in Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Town .” Der Querschnitt , April , 244 – 46 . Fritzsche Peter . 2002 . “ Readers, Browsers, Strangers, Spectators: Narrative Forms and Metropolitan Encounters in Twentieth-Century Berlin .” In Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing, and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period , edited...
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Adorno's Mimeograph: The Uses of Obsolescence in Minima Moralia
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 65–92.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., insightful feedback from Andreas Huyssen, Amir Eshel, and an
anonymous reader had a significantly clarifying impact on this article. I also wish to thank the
Mellon Foundation, which funded a 2009–11 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Trendy Monsters: The Nazis, the Perpetrator Turn, and Popular Culture
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of bucks. Can you believe this guy?” 24 Undoubtedly, Amis wanted his novel to offer his readers a moral lesson: “The reader has to do all the morality because these terrible events are described as benevolent, but also in such a way that, I hope, there is a sort of disgust and an unreality and self...
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On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 21–34.
Published: 01 February 2009
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stand that this conglomerate of language that Littell produces—and that
should and must cause the reader great pain—gets to the heart of the matter:
the noxious functioning of the German SS-intelligentsia as a self-proclaimed
cultural elite murdering in cold blood, their claimed role as a vanguard...
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