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From:Modern Austrian Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDebating Sebald's Intertextuality Intertextuality and intermediality have emerged as two key themes of current Sebald scholarship. This preoccupation is hardly surprising given the density of Sebald's intertextual...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 102, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article challenges the substance of what is accepted as a critical key to nineteenth-century urban experience: Walter Benjamin's concept of the flaneur. Benjamin's concept is based on incorrect readings of...
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From:Pynchon Notes (Issue 44-45) Peer-ReviewedMan has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against nature ... the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Günter Grass has shown in his novels that he is one of the most acute observers and critics of West Germany. After beginning in the 1950s with short prose pieces, poems, and plays in the then dominant `absurd' style, he...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)One of the most versatile and enigmatic figures in the field of 20th-century German letters, Alfred Döblin was, like Kafka, born into the social environment of deracinated eastern European Jewry. The poverty endured in...
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From:New Criterion (Vol. 20, Issue 4)How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. --W. G. Sebald, Vertigo Travel, Kierkegaard claimed, is the best way to avoid despair. But for the German writer W. G. Sebald, it leads, as...
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From:Women in German YearbookThe New Scheherazade (Die neue Scheherazade, Paul List Verlag, 1986) is Lilian Faschinger's first novel. As in the original Thousand and One Nights, Faschinger's narrator tells stories to escape death, if not literal...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 78, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEINE GANZE Gattung des bosartigsten "Idealismus'--der ubrigens auch bei Mannern vorkommt, zum Beispiel bei Henrik Ibsen, dieser typischen alten Jungfrau--hat das Ziel, das gute Gewissen, die Natur in der...
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From:Biography (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBiography and autobiography are being rediscovered by German scholars of history, literature, and the social sciences. For most of the twentieth century, biography and autobiography were slightly disreputable...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)More consistently than any of his contemporaries Heinrich Böll documented the development of the Federal Republic from its inception. In doing so he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming a best-selling author who was...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the dominant figure in the history of modern German literature, whose works established, in all the principal genres, models or norms which have dominated succeeding generations (whether...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedGeorges Braque, the French cubist painter, wrote in his journal: "As socialism becomes more complete, war will become more and more total" (Braque, Notebooks, 68). Although the record does not indicate an exact date...
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From:Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCultural critics often frame present-day Berlin as a space of historical discontinuities, a nexus of modernity and postmodernity that, in its orientation toward the future, represents post-reunification Germany in all...
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From:Variaciones BorgesPeer-ReviewedIn an often-quoted segment from the third part of the Theologia Mistica, Pseudo-Dionisius writes as follows: Pseudo-Dionisius points here at an internal relation between transcendental experience and silence. In this...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedE. T. A. Hoffmann called his first collection of tales Fantasiestucke in Callots Manier, or Fantasy-Pieces in Callot's Manner, which meant that his stories were in the manner of the 17th century French engraver, Jacques...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 92, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. After graduating from high school, she first trained as a bookbinder before going on to study theater science and music stage direction. While working as an opera...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is undeniably one of the leading figures in Western literature, his reception in America in his own day was mixed at best. In fact, Goethe's stature was recognized by a select few in...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 90, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the impact of German culture on America is enormous in education, food, social practices, and many other aspects, only occasionally have German crime writers made a big splash in American publishing. In the...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Bertolt Brecht is the single most innovative and influential force in 20th-century theatre. He wrote some three dozen plays, and these, together with his theories and productions, prose and verse, are all of a unity,...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)E.T.A. Hoffmann is one of the few authors belonging to German romanticism who has attained international status. As an exponent of `black romanticism', as it is called in Europe, he was hailed by Baudelaire and scorned...