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Critical Approaches to Heimat and the “Spatial Turn”

Friederike Eigler
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 27–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434497
Published: 01 February 2012
... geography. Critical Approaches to Heimat and the “Spatial Turn” Friederike Eigler The German concept of Heimat carries a rich set of cultural and ideological connotations that combine notions of belonging and identity...
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Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck's Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective

Axel Goodbody
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511907
Published: 01 August 2016
... to Heimat and the ‘Spatial Turn.’” New German Critique , no. 2 : 27 – 48 . Erpenbeck Jenny . 2008 . Heimsuchung . Frankfurt am Main : Eichborn . ———. 2010 . Visitation , translated by Bernofsky Susan . London : Portobello . Gebhard Gunther Geisler Oliver Schröter...
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The Life of a Nomad and a World Citizen: Alexander von Humboldt, Nomadic Knowledge, and the Global Landscapes of Theory

Ottmar Ette
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 33–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3511859
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Pfeiffer Heinrich , ed. 1969 . Alexander von Humboldt. Werk und Weltgeltung . Munich : Piper . Alexander von Humboldt globalization American travel journals transarea studies spatial turn © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 ...
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Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm

Anne Fuchs
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 119–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550890
Published: 01 August 2012
... into semiotically meaningful places.7 In literary texts, spatial descriptions are, as Jurij M. Lotman points out, a primary instrument for organizing textual worlds, which in turn func- tion as symbolic models of the entire world.8 I would add that they are psy- chotopographically inflected when...
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Guy Maddin’s Careful and the Mountain Film: A Transnational Approach to German Film History

Karolina Watroba
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734847
Published: 01 August 2022
... Ingeborg . “ The Cult of the Cold and the Gendered Body in Mountain Films .” In Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture , edited by Fisher Jaimey and Mennel Barbara Caroline , 363 – 80 . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2010 . Melnyk George . One...
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Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin

David L. Pike
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-005
Published: 01 August 2010
... that division. After a brief discussion of the forerunners to this spatial coupling in the spy tunnels under Vienna and Berlin in the immediate postwar period, I survey the use of tunnels as escape routes after the construction of the Wall in 1961 through their depiction in fiction, memoirs, history, and film...
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Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers's Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara

Christoph Schaub
New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2824261
Published: 01 February 2015
... of the Fishermen of St. Barbara at the intersection of modernism and workers' movement literature and argues that such literature should be understood as part of a broadly conceived literary modernism. Reorienting modernist aesthetics toward a poetics of collectivity and viewing modernity through a spatial poetics...
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Contaminated Soulscapes and Landscapes in Maja Haderlap’s Engel des Vergessens/Angel of Oblivion

Barbara Siller
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 197–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908448
Published: 01 February 2020
... in spatial studies over the last thirty years. After the spatial turn, spaces are perceived no longer as uninvolved “containers” that humans and their practices create but as spaces that already contain their own experiences, their own history, memory, and identity, linked to the lives of those who inhabit...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin

Eric Bulson
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-004
Published: 01 August 2010
... Writing in the wake of the air raids, Thomas Pynchon refused to treat modern cities as convenient spatial systems easily incorporated into nov- els without the burden of their respective pasts. The historical spaces in a novel like Gravity’s Rainbow, therefore, are not just the end result...
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Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World

Andreas Huyssen
New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-023
Published: 01 February 2007
... is usually said to last from the mid- nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, but there are signifi cant temporal and spatial variants within that frame. Continental national cultures in Europe do not operate in sync (French modernism precedes the German variant), and different artistic media turn...
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Narrative Resemblance: The Production of Truth in the Modernist Photobook of Weimar Germany

Patrizia McBride
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 169–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434542
Published: 01 February 2012
... they ran aground on a seemingly intractable aporia. On the one hand, photography emerged as the medium that beat painting at its own game of verisimilitude, thanks to its ability to reproduce appearances in an exact fashion. On the other, this exactness turned out to be a skin-deep affair that lent...
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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
... the past (GS, 9). As an opening gambit, Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers raises the temporal metaphor of the historical turning point, the Wende, to undermine, through spatial metaphors, its claim to intrinsic meaning. These images of place—the settlement of the past, GDR ruins in the present...
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Was Nicht im “Baedeker” Steht: Exploring Art, Mass Culture, and Antitourism in Weimar Germany

Camilla Smith
New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4269910
Published: 01 February 2018
... of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide.” In Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture, edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel, 53–77. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Solari, Pietro. 1930. “Italiener in Venedig.” Der Querschnitt...
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Introduction

Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550827
Published: 01 August 2012
...- dimensionality of this “soft” relationship to the past by exploring diverse liter- ary responses to 1989. The editors of the present issue continue this debate through an interdisciplinary analysis of spatial tropes in contemporary litera- ture, architecture, and photography. 1. Andreas Huyssen, Werner...
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Modernism Reconsidered: The Kultur-Zivilisation Dichotomy in the Work of Adolf Rading

Deborah Ascher Barnstone
New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-010
Published: 01 November 2009
... of dwelling where the tensions that repel, that are polar opposites, ‘inte- rior’ and ‘exterior,’ culture and civilization, become reconciled to one another” (FA, 23). He posits several ways in which reconciliation is attempted, including the adoption of spatial and material transparency. In the essay...
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The Last Dwelling before the Last: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critical Contribution to the Modernist Housing Debate in Weimar Germany

Hans-Georg von Arburg
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607633
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the Weimar Republic. 2 This feature it shares with the fate of literature in the age of so-called media competition. When authors turned journalists write about living in this medialized environment, then it is just one exemplary case of something that happens more generally to modern literature...
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Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734861
Published: 01 August 2022
... and spatial dislocations of exile. Thus Hollywood film noir becomes a key point of reference for understanding the experiential nexus of urban transformation, exile, and historical trauma, which are complexly entangled in Lang’s rendering of the city. While The Thousand Eyes fits more easily...
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Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin

Simon Ward
New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2889296
Published: 01 August 2015
... to the posturban condition of the city, whose center is a space of tourist itineraries rather than of everyday spatial practices. This reconstruction of the center of Berlin as a “figure of lateness” is far from “late” and more “of the present,” as cities seek to create “virtual, global” identities...
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Between Athlos and Arbeit : Myth, Labor, and Cement

Devin Fore
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-008
Published: 01 August 2010
... the contents of utopia unaffected. As Huyssen explained, this transition reversed the polarity of utopia, as it were, making the past into the site of its investments rather than the future. With the demise of the east- ern bloc, utopian thought turned back the clock and began to focus on what Huyssen...
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Software Physiognomics: Adorno's Radio Analytics Today

Martin Scherzinger
New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 53–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3625361
Published: 01 November 2016
... of “standardization” (from the content of broadcasting Martin Scherzinger  55 to its spatially ubiquitous disseminating powers); the “neutralization” of sound characteristics (through a kind of de- and redifferentiation of timbre and tone colors internal to symphonic...
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