German Quarterly back issues from July 2006:
A Note from the Editor
Jul 01, 2006; ... This issue of the German Quarterly focuses on "Literature around 1900." Similar to previous Focus issues (Focus on Poetry 78.2; Focus on Film 78.4), the articles are not the product of a call for papers but rather come from the pool of accepted manuscripts. I have clustered these articles in an ...
The Pendulum of Poetry: Metaphor and Mediation in Rilke's Duineser Elegien
Jul 01, 2006; ... In his essay, "Poésie et pensée abstraite," the French Symbolist poet Paul Valéry describes poetry as a pendulum swinging between the philosophical ideas expressed ("la Pensée") and the sonorous qualities of language ("la Voix") : "Entre la Voix et la Pensée, entre la Pensée et la Voix, entre la ...
The Double Fiction in Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten1
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Swiss author Robert Walser earned his place in the modernist canon posthumously. Although he was praised during his lifetime by several noted writers-among them Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin-he did not achieve fame until the 1960s, when the texts he wrote in an astonishingly ...
"Was auf den Tisch kam, mußte aufgegessen [...] werden": Food, Gender, and Power in Kafka's Letters and Stories
Jul 01, 2006; ... "Nur der Hunger kann das ganz und gar Eigentumliche sein; denn mit jeder Speise wird zugleich das Gesetz der anderen, werden die Spielregeln der im Verbot gesetzten Kulinarik ubernommen."1 -Neumann, "Literatur" 189. The characters in some of Kafka's most extraordinary short ...
"Wie ein Kind ist unser Volk": Hybrid Identity and National Consciousness in Rilke's Zwei Prager Geschichten
Jul 01, 2006; ... Rilke's early prose work Zwei Prager Geschichten (1899) has received scant critical attention, even by the standards of Rilke's much-maligned "immature" period. What attention these two interrelated stories have received has generally addressed the socio-political context within which they ...
Resisting "Bad Taste": Sentimentality, "Jewishness," and Modernity in Arthur Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie
Jul 01, 2006; ... Ever since the critic Josef Körner called Arthur Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie (1908) a "verfehltes Werk," this pronouncement has come to haunt the reception of this novel (218). Even for those who have since then attempted to steer away from this view, Körner's verdict has nevertheless ...
German Studies as Perpetual Difference: A Cosmopolitical Sketch
Jul 01, 2006; ... Conceptualizing the predicament and ambition of an academic discipline such as German Studies through the filters of globalization, my foremost concern is mediation of cultural difference through a careful consideration of the local and the global, the here and the elsewhere. That said, I am ...
A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue
Jul 01, 2006; ... Medieval Literature and Culture Gentry, Francis G., ed.A Companion to the Works of Hartmann von Aue. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 291pp. $95.00 hardcover. It is quite typical for essay collections focusing on a literary figure or era to be uneven in their probity and style. Such is, ...
Mannes manheit, vrouwen meister. Männliche Sozialisation und Formen der Gewalt gegen Frauen im Nibelungenlied und in Wolframs von Eschenbach
Jul 01, 2006; ... Scheuble, Robert. Mannes manheit, vrouwen meister. Männliche Sozialisation und Formen der Gewalt gegen Frauen im Nibelungenlied und in Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2005. 381pp. euro56.50 hardcover. This sober and sobering study of male violence, both ...
Der Zorn der Nibelungen: Rivalität und Rache im "Nibelungenlied."
Jul 01, 2006; ... Gephart, Irmgard. Der Zorn der Nibelungen: Rivalität und Rache im "Nibelungenlied." Cologne: Böhlau, 2005. 267pp. euro34.90 paperback. Erneut eine wissenschaftliche Studie über das Nibelungenlied (NL), hier die in den Druck gebrachte Wiener Habilitation Irmgard Gepharts von 2003. Erst ...
Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages
Jul 01, 2006; ... Starkey, Kathryn, and Horst Wenzel, eds. Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2005. 290pp. 26 plates. $65.00 hardcover. In this volume, the scholarly and editorial contribution of Kathryn Starkey and Horst Wenzel to our understanding of medieval culture is ...
Die Sterne, die Zensur und das Vaterland. Geschichte und Theater im späten 18. Jahrhundert
Jul 01, 2006; ... 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture Höyng, Peter. Die Sterne, die Zensur und das Vaterland. Geschichte und Theater im späten 18. Jahrhundert. Cologne: Böhlau, 2003. 246 pp. euro34.90 hardcover. Höyngs Studie geht dem von Foucault und Kosellek jeweils unterschiedlich begründeten ...
Unlesbarkeit: Melancholie und Schrift bei Goethe
Jul 01, 2006; ... Loffler, Jörg. Unlesbarkeit: Melancholic und Schrift bei Goethe. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2005. 177pp. euro29.80 paperback. Die Studie exponiert den "leitenden Gesichtspunkt" der "Poetik der melancholischen Schrift" (92) mit Blick auf Derrida und de Man. Im werkbezogenen Teil wird, in ...
German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899
Jul 01, 2006; ... Koelb, clayton, and Eric Downing, eds. German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. Rochester: CamdenHouse, 2005.348pp. $90.00 hardcover Multi-authored literary histories need a strong conceptual focus in order to succeed. The editors of this volume organize the contents into ...
A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller
Jul 01, 2006; ... Martinson, Steven D., ed. A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 333pp. $90.00 hardcover. " ... the specific character of Schiller's genius and works [is] still in need of more clarification-and liberation from cultural prejudices." The concluding ...
Maler Nolten. A Novella in Two Parts
Jul 01, 2006; ... Mörike, Eduard. Maler Nolten. A Novella in Two Parts. Trans. and with a critical introduction by Raleigh Whitinger. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 312pp. $75.00 hardcover. In a letter to his publisher regarding his Künstlernovelle "Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag," Eduard Morike writes in ...
Poesie-Natur-Kinder: Die Brüder Grimm und ihre Idee einer "natürlichen Bildung" in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Jul 01, 2006; ... Murayama, Isamitsu. Poesie -Natur- Kinder: Die Bruder Grimm und ihre Idee einer "natürlichen Bildung" in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005. 381pp. euro58.00 hardcover. While all fairy-tale eyes were focused on the commemoration of Hans Christian ...
The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900
Jul 01, 2006; ... Strathausen, Carsten. The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision Around 1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.321pp. $49.95 cloth. For all the discussion about what German Studies means in the early 21st century, Carsten Strathausen's book manages to address the field in ...
Ludwig Bechstein und die literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher Hexenverfolgung im 19. Jahrhundert
Jul 01, 2006; ... Schmidt, Burghart. Ludwig Bechstein unddie, literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher Hexenverfolgung im 19. Jahrhundert. Hamburg: DOBU-Verlag, 2004. 412pp., 15 illust. euro39.90 hardcover. Research on the persecution of (mostly) women as witches in the Early Modern Period continues to ...
Kalkül und Leidenschaft: Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen
Jul 01, 2006; ... Vogl, Joseph. Kalkül und Leidenschaft: Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2004. 393pp. euro25.00 paperback. This investigation of the emergence of "economic man" around 1800 is one of the most comprehensive, intellectually ambitious, and stimulating interpretations of ...
The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration
Jul 01, 2006; ... Adelson, Leslie A. The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 264pp. $65.00 hardcover. This timely and important study is, as its sub-title suggests, as much concerned with critical reading practices ...
German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust. Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address
Jul 01, 2006; ... Bos, Pascale R. German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust. Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 93pp. $65.00 hardcover. Pascale Bos's book is a slender volume of 93 pages that divide into five chapters, plus notes, a ...
Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author
Jul 01, 2006; ... Birgel, Franz A., and Klaus Phillips, eds. Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 384pp. $70.00 doth. More than ten years in the making, this collection of essays on the German filmmaker and writer Doris Dome is a welcome ...
Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR
Jul 01, 2006; ... Bridge, Helen. Women's Writing and Historiography in the GDR. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. 280pp. $74.00 hardcover. Fifteen years after German unification, the evaluation of the social and political role of GDR writers remains a challenging endeavor for scholars in German literature ....
Libuse Moníková in Memoriam
Jul 01, 2006; ... Haines, Brigid, and Lyn Marven, eds. Libuse Moníková in Memoriam. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 320pp. $50.00 hardcover. This volume "honors the work" (3) of Czech-born German author Libuse Moníková (1945-98). The theoretically wide-ranging contributions provide insight into the discourses of ...
German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
Jul 01, 2006; ... Mack, Michael. German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 237pp. $35.00 hardcover. Modernity's anti-Semitism, the dark cloud on the horizon of European progress, is often explained as either ...
Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity
Jul 01, 2006; ... Simine, Silke Arnold-de, ed. Memory Traces: 1989 And the. Question of German Cultural Identity. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. 343pp. $67.95 paperback. Memory Traces, volume 5 in the Cultural History and Literary Imagination series edited by Christian Emden and David Midgley, includes ...
German Literature of the 1990s and Beyond: Normalization and the Berlin Republic
Jul 01, 2006; ... Taberner, Stuart. German Literature of the 1990s and Beyond: Normalization and the Berlin Republic. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 289pp. $75.00 hardcover. Stuart Taberner's book assesses the state of literature in post-unification Germany. Attesting to the book's relevance and ...
Krieg in den Medien
Jul 01, 2006; ... Preußer, Heinz-Peter, ed. Krieg in den Medien. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 457pp. $115.00 hardcover. Heinz-Peter Preuder's book offers a wealth of material for anyone interested in the complex interrelation between war and the media. The contributions encompass a wide variety of approaches ...
Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry
Jul 01, 2006; ... Phillips, James. Heidegger's VoIk: Between National Socialism and Poetry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 296pp. $65.00 hardcover, $24.95 paperback. In this book, James Phillips offers a compelling argument that Heidegger's engagement with National Socialism was not the result ...
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Jul 01, 2006; ... Zaretsky, Eli. SecretsoftheSoul:A Socialand Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.New York: Knopf, 2004. 429pp. $30.00 cloth. This ambitious study lives up to its subtitle, exploring to differing degrees the resonances of psychoanalysis in philosophy, history, economics, literature, ...
"Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s
Jul 01, 2006; ... Thériault, Barbara. "Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. 188pp. $50.00 hardcover. Barbara Thériault has written an intelligent and generally insightful analysis of the ...
Hermann Hesse Today-Hermann Hesse Heute
Jul 01, 2006; ... Cornils, Ingo, and Osman Durrani, eds. Hermann Hesse Today-Hermann Hesse Heute. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 221pp. euro48.00 hardcover. Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge einer internationalen Londoner Tagung im Hesse-Jubiläumsjahr 2002 anlässlich des 125-jährigen Geburtstags des ...