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..., the following essay illuminates not only how reading and writing embody these oppositions between form and formless but also how this tension culminates in Weiss’s poetic regeneration of a Marxism uncanny in nature despite what he perceived as dialectical materialism’s bureaucratic exhaustion in the Eastern...

... the “anticolonial” hero Aghion. Through Hesse's self-fictionalization as Aghion, he casts a critical light on his own anticolonial exoticism: Aghion, like the young Hesse, hates colonialism because it creates a frighteningly “uncanny” ( unheimlich ) mixture of India and Europe, and so ruins Aghion's fantasies...

...Martin Elsky The German Jewish scholar Erich Auerbach comments with uncharacteristic candor about his feelings regarding Jews in a 1941 letter to his fellow expatriate in Turkish exile Alexander Rüstow. Auerbach describes Jews as “uncanny” ( unheimlich ): after their ancient exile, Jews became...

... selected from numerous archival and private collections, discerning a move away from the practice of interior photography as a tool of social affirmation in the late Weimar Republic toward its attestation of absence and loss shortly before emigration from Germany. Employing the Freudian term uncanny in its...

... the traces of the trauma or loss that called the narrative into being in the first place.”24 But while such a narrative tries to erase the marks of trauma, traumatic traces refuse to dissolve com- pletely and manifest themselves as the uncanny symptoms of a repetition com- pulsion that disclose where...

.... Between 1915 and 1917, in particular, Kafka produced several stories about strangely animate things that can be linked to the uncanny and autonomous life of objects in early film. These include a pair of striped bouncing balls in the 1915 fragment, “Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle” (“Blumfeld...

... “like a double.” Cohnʼs anxiety about the cinematographic apparatus with its uncanny ability to copy physical movement all but coincides with the “primi- tive” fear of photography he himself had derided. The anthropologist Lucien Lévy-Bruhl described the animist dread of visual media as based...

...: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority , edited by Borneman John , 123 – 47 . New York : Berghahn , 2004 . Knittel Susanne C. The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory . New York : Fordham University Press , 2015 . Knittel Susanne...

... and uncanny self-departure, Hamit’s translation of Bachmann from this site enacts a form of crosslinguistic remembrance that brings the history of Turkish-language reform to bear on the contemporary German context: the historical absence symbolized by the pavilion attests at once to the lasting and traumatic...

... to originate from Hans Castorp’s memory of his homosexual childhood crush Pribislav Hippe, a dormant childhood illness, and the “uncanniness” ( Unheimlichkeit , or das Unheimliche ) of Dasein ’s Being. On the grounds of language, temporality, and something of a shared “sympathy with death” (Sympathie mit...

... of the more militant parts of the West German Left, which is characterized by “signs of displacement (in space and time), reversal (of cause and effect), and disavowal (of the never fully examined German anti-Semitism).” 5 Accordingly, several studies have focused on uncanny repercussions of Holocaust...

... Sandmann” (1816) the inner cohesion of technology (the new optical instruments), reproduction (the doll as the mechanical image of the beautiful), and obsessive deception (the young man who falls for the technical image of the doll) comes undone; indeed, turning the ordinary into the uncanny...

... that a central concern of literature is precisely “the historical uncanny”—remnants of traditions, events, and traumas that continue to haunt the present46—critical approaches benefit from concepts of place and space that account for the role of memory as well. Literary Representations of Heimat...

... of the ghosts and the narrative spotlight (11.34–50). 1 For his history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century classical philology, Regius Professor of Greek Hugh Lloyd-Jones took this deeply uncanny encounter as figurative for scholarly production of knowledge about the ancient world. 2 It is unsettling...

..., propagandistic imagery of the Third Reich on the mockup Nazi iconography of Hollywood, revealing an uncanny, even spooky, resemblance between the playacting and real-life exponents of evil.” 5 Real Nazis maps the diversity of the people who actually belonged to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party...

... makes the world appear 1. The term unheimlich, often translated as “uncanny,” has a colorful history in Western thought and has featured as an operative concept in Sigmund Freud, William James, and Martin Heidegger, among others. For my purposes, I translate unheimlich as “unhomelike...

... an uncanny life—or nonlife—of its own. While the expectation of becoming “an impression that will transform itself” could be understood, following Kittler, as the promise of a kind of writing that solicits nothing beyond its material manifestation, such writing would in turn demand a nonmetaphysical mode...

...: Rowohlt, 1981), 6:7–140. 31. Musil connects the uncanny doubleness of all things with Indian Buddhism. Likewise, in Death in Venice a web of uncanny symbols unfolds that is associated with the sirocco, the wind that travels up the south-north axis but carries Indian cholera. For a nuanced analysis...

... and the other accelerat- ing the “time it takes time to end” in Giorgio Agamben’s felicitous formula for capturing the uncanny temporality of the Pauline kairos.11 I conclude by dis- cussing the intertwined positions of Taubes and Schmitt in light of Paul’s understanding of the kairos as the working out...

... action emerges that diverges revealingly from the narrator’s stated poetics and his historical and political assumptions. In “Marxist and Formless : Uncanny Materialism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance ,” Richard Langston reads the novel as a search for new form, a form commensurate...