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Feeling Of The Form - Empathy And Aesthetics From Buchner To Rilke

by Joseph R. Metz

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 The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung-the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms-developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. The word would be translated into English as "empathy" and migrate in meaning from the aesthetic to the interpersonal sphere. Combining close analysis and cultural "para-history," The Feeling of the Form reads literary texts by Georg Buechner, Adalbert Stifter, and Rainer Maria Rilke alongside philosophical texts by Robert Vischer, Vernon Lee, and Theodor Lipps to uncover the often-uncanny intersections of aesthetic and interpersonal empathy.Traveling both backward and forward in time from the 1873 invention of Einfuehlung, Joseph R. Metz traces the diverse and multidirectional exchanges among subjects and objects, feelings and forms, and selves and others that together yield an expanded understanding of Einfuehlung, empathy, and the connections between them. In its surprising juxtapositions, The Feeling of the Form also shows how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts prefigure a wide array of later thought, including affect theory, "other minds," artificial intelligence, object-oriented ontology, and cinema and video game aesthetics.
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Textual Entanglements - Handke, Bernhard, Rilke, And The Materiality Of Literature

by Jacob Haubenreich

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 Textual Entanglements explores how the material processes of writing manifest in the published works of three twentieth-century Austrian authors: Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, and Rainer Maria Rilke. These authors left behind material traces of their writing processes, whether in notebooks, piles of disorganized typewritten sheets, or manuscript fragments. The materials do not merely act as containers for their texts: They spill into the semantic content of the writing, becoming entangled in it. The idiosyncratic materials and methods of the writing process do not disappear when the work enters print. Examining these material traces, Textual Entanglements contends that we cannot fully understand these texts'' semantic dynamics without considering the material circumstances of their production. Jacob Haubenreich reads Handke, Bernhard, and Rilke to argue that the materiality of textual production opens up a broader semiotic field in which meaning can be created. Haubenreich''s book offers a theoretical framework and methodological models for integrating analysis of textual materiality into literary analysis in ways that expand the boundaries of literary interpretation.
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Unsettling Difference - Music Drama, The Bible, And The Critique Of German Jewish Identity

by Adi Nester

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 Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that the issue of Jewish difference should be treated as an aesthetic question in the first half of the twentieth century, even amidst the rise of pseudo-scientific theories about race and blood.
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Homo Temporalis - German Jewish Thinkers On Time

by Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic

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 Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German-Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. By stressing the concept of time in their thinking, Nitzan Lebovic challenges previous debates that have focused on identity, ideology, and territory.
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Waiting Water - Order, Sacrifice, And Submergence In German Realism

by Alexander Sorenson

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 The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literatureâ€"death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it.
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Mixed Feelings - Tropes Of Love In German Jewish Culture

by Katja Garloff

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 In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature (and philosophy) to use love between individuals as a metaphor for group...
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Lyric Orientations - Holderlin, Rilke, And The Poetics Of Community

by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge

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 In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin (1770â€"1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke...
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Berlin Coquette - Prostitution And The New German Woman, 1890â€“1933

by Jill Suzanne Smith

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 Smith recovers a surprising array of discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability in ate Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany.
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Berlin Coquette - Prostitution And The New German Woman, 1890â€“1933

by Jill Suzanne Smith

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 Smith recovers a surprising array of discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability in ate Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany.
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Novel Translations - The European Novel And The German Book, 1680â€“1730

by Bethany Wiggin

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 Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newnessâ€"in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novelâ€"entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated the genre.
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Benjamin'S Library - Modernity, Nation, And The Baroque

by Jane O. Newman

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 Recovering Walter Benjamin's connection to seventeenth-century Baroque literature and political theory.
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Formative Fictions - Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, And The Bildungsroman

by Tobias Boes

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 Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature.
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Legal Tender - Love And Legitimacy In The East German Cultural Imagination

by John Griffith Urang

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 Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture.
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Allegories Of Format - A Media History Of Gottfried Keller'S Unlikely Oeuvre

by Malika Maskarinec

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Adorno'S Gamble - Harnessing German Ideology

by Mikko Immanen

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Unsettling Difference - Music Drama, The Bible, And The Critique Of German Jewish Identity

by Adi Nester

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Writing Time - Studies In Serial Literature, 1780â€“1850

by Sean Franzel

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The Redemption Of Things - Collecting And Dispersal In German Realism And Modernism

by Samuel Frederick

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Chinese Sympathies - Media, Missionaries, And World Literature From Marco Polo To Goethe

by Daniel Leonhard Purdy

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The Case Of Literature - Forensic Narratives From Goethe To Kafka

by Arne Höcker

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Textual Entanglements - Handke, Bernhard, Rilke, And The Materiality Of Literature

by Jacob Haubenreich

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 Textual Entanglements explores how the material processes of writing manifest in the published works of three twentieth-century Austrian authors: Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, and Rainer Maria Rilke. These authors left behind material traces of their writing processes, whether in notebooks, piles of disorganized typewritten sheets, or manuscript fragments. The materials do not merely act as containers for their texts: They spill into the semantic content of the writing, becoming entangled in it. The idiosyncratic materials and methods of the writing process do not disappear when the work enters print. Examining these material traces, Textual Entanglements contends that we cannot fully understand these texts' semantic dynamics without considering the material circumstances of their production. Jacob Haubenreich reads Handke, Bernhard, and Rilke to argue that the materiality of textual production opens up a broader semiotic field in which meaning can be created. Haubenreich's book offers a theoretical framework and methodological models for integrating analysis of textual materiality into literary analysis in ways that expand the boundaries of literary interpretation.
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Theater Of The Void - Plasticity, Hauntology, And Nuclear Blast

by Teresa Kovacs

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 Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilation—whether through nuclear technology or, more recently, global warming—German-language theater since the late 1970s encounters the void not as empty space or nothingness but as the possibility of radical transformation. Theater of the Void investigates theatrical forms that transform fundamental categories of time, space, and causality in light of the ontological and epistemological shifts of the nuclear age. Teresa Kovacs focuses on four directors and playwrights whose works offer insights into the theater of the void: Heiner Müller, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Schlingensief, and René Pollesch. Kovacs shows that contemporary German theater has not turned away from the sciences after Hiroshima and Nagasaki but has remained entangled with scientific thinking about quantum physics, biology, and the environment. Investigating these entanglements, Theater of the Void finds in the works of these German theater-makers a grammar of the void that speaks to the possibilities of a transformed theater in the Anthropocene.
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Creatures Of Attention - Aesthetics And The Subject Before Kant

by Johannes Wankhammer

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 Creatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works from eighteenth-century Germany in which "attention," "subject," and "aesthetics" developed their modern meanings, Johannes Wankhammer examines control over attention as the cultural technique underpinning the ideal of individual autonomy. Aesthetics, founded by Alexander Baumgarten as a science of sense perception, challenged this ideal by reframing art as a catalyst for alternative modes of selfhood and attention. While previous scholarship on the history of attention emphasized the erosion of subjectivity by industrial or technological modernization, Wankhammer asks how attention came to define subjectivity in the first place. When periodically recurring crises of attention threaten the coherence of the subject, the subject comes undone at the very seams that first sutured it together. Creatures of Attention offers the first systematic study of a foundational discourse on attention from 1650 to 1780. Presenting pre-Kantian aesthetics as a critique of the Enlightenment paradigm of strained attention, the book offers a fresh perspective on poetics and aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany.
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Shapes Of Time - History And Eschatology In The Modernist Imagination

by Michael Mcgillen

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 McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time at the boundary between secular and theological discourses. He identifies the ways in which spatial imagery and metaphors were employed to both separate the end of history from a narrative framework and to map the liminal relation between history and eschatology.
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