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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 5–51.
Published: 01 August 2009
... photomontages, here he avoided the photographic basis of film because it lent itself all too easily to prowar propaganda. His work with George Grosz, by contrast, attempted to reinsert somatic terror into representations of the war and thereby to counter the visually sedative aspect of contemporary German war...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 95–112.
Published: 01 November 2014
... maintaining the idea of redemption. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 In the Image: The Transformation of Cinematic Shoah Representations in Michael Glawogger’s Kill Daddy Goodnight Norbert Otto Eke Cinema as Consensus Machine Writing...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Isabel Capeloa Gil Literary communication faces challenges when addressing torture, an unmediated and untranslatable event that antagonizes representation. Given the radical difference between the act of reading torture and the experience thereof, the representation of the event is never mastered...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
Published: 01 February 2012
... life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely consider these new discourses on space, while studies on literary representations of space seldom include approaches to Heimat...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Axel Goodbody This article considers the human-nature relationship in modern Heimat (homeland) discourse and its depiction in literary representations of Heimat . The first part examines the environmental turn in thinking on Heimat in the 1970s and shows how it was part of a wider shift...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Brook Henkel Fritz Lang’s film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) stands out among West German cinema of the Adenauer years for its attention to urban space and the afterlife of Nazism in the postwar era. This article rereads the film as an incisive representation of the new mobilities...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 85–108.
Published: 01 November 2009
... four suppositions that are constitutive for his way of philosophy: his repudiation of prima philosophia ; his plea for a relational, differential construction of concepts; his postulate of radical secularization; and his demand that there should be consequences for the form of representation...
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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 (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 89–131.
Published: 01 August 2009
... photographic fragments in a montage might engage viewers in a new way. In addition, Moholy-Nagy's and Brandt's photomontages resituate the mass media's representations of New Women and frequently create representations of the figure of the constructor, a hybrid technician-artist that each artist sought...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 139–169.
Published: 01 August 2008
... a significant shift in representations of post-reunification Berlin that affects how the city is seen and experienced. There is a visible tension in novels set in and partly based on Berlin's urban fabric between a perceived moral obligation to the past and a desire for contextualization in the literary...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Karen Leeder The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on the specter of communism; it now haunts contemporary capitalism as unrealized aspiration, trauma, or travesty. This article focuses on the representation of the after-life of the GDR in the work of Volker Braun. It examines...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
Published: 01 August 2012
... conflicts that finally erupt in the revolution of 1989, the article foregrounds three modes of cultural representation that produce three versions of cultural history. The first, symbolic mode epitomizes the protagonists' conventional understanding of culture as an archive of knowledge and learning...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 91–107.
Published: 01 November 2012
... law. Precisely those aspects of Judaism that these Jewish scholars despised—mysticism, pietism, apocalypticism—they also ignored in their representations of Islam. The identification with Islam was part of a larger project of modern Jewish thinkers to “purify” Judaism of religious excess—pietism...
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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 (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., but also society, held together by libidinal ties that Freud associated with eros. Dissolving this apparent paradox, the essay shows that, for Freud, the mass occupies the same position as the unconscious. Beyond representation and language, the mass is for Freud society in its “zero-degree” or “raw” state...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 137–165.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Hitler's appointment as Reich chancellor. Grosz's drawings, compared with other representations of the camps in the mainstream press and by left-wing artists, are distinguished by their treatment of the masculinities of both the perpetrators and the victims. Gay Nazis, frequently evoked by the left-wing...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 121–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
... this “deportability archive,” the article turns to literary representations of the Zogaj case by Elfriede Jelinek and Franzobel, to media reports, and, most importantly, to the texts of the two final court decisions. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Wobei: Becoming Arigona Zogaj in (Anti-) Immigrant...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 9–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
... argues that Thalheim offers an alternative approach to the Holocaust through an innovative aesthetic treatment of the space of Auschwitz as both a historical and a contemporary site. Yet in his zeal to avoid duplicating iconic images of the camp, Thalheim fails to generate a new representational scheme...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
... resonant with contemporary minority studies, The Revolt of the Fishermen constructs alternative representations of proletarian masses, social transformation, and gender. The story subtly undermines masculine visions of revolutionary agency and pays special attention to the role of working-class women...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 175–203.
Published: 01 November 2018
... defined position within the totality of consciousness, an account of consciousness that closely parallels Alois Riegl’s theory of the spectator as a formally defined component of works of art. Both Lukács and Riegl incorporate notions of agency and active involvement in the forms of representation...