Recently added articles from The Germanic Review:
Direction, disruption, voice: Durs Grunbein's "Historien" and "Neue Historien".
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: Focusing on Durs Grunbein's presentation of different "histories" ("Historien"), the author offers an approach to his poetry based on voice--the ways in which Grunbein's voice is constituted by the presence of other voices from the German poetic and philosophical tradition. He ...
Sebald's segues: performing narrative contingency in The Rings of Saturn.
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT: The author presents a narratological examination of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn that identifies this work as pivotal in this author's oeuvre. Taking as its starting point the observation that this text exhibits a structure of laminated layers reminiscent of the rings of ...
Introduction: Zionism and its discontents: toward a conceptual history.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In his 1927 treatise, Caliban oder Politik und Leidenschaft, Arnold Zweig summed up what he considered to be the main objective of Zionism: "Zionism is the tendency to normalize the position of Jews on Earth" (265). On the one hand, this project of "normalization" aimed to provide a modern ...
The sacred and the unfamiliar: Gershom Scholem and the anxieties of the new Hebrew.(Abstract)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The question of Hebrew, the conditions and possibilities of its "renaissance" and its rebirth as a secular language and a source of modern national discourse, was one of the central concerns of the Zionist enterprise around 1900. In his famous letter of December 1926 dedicated to ...
Zionism before the law: the politics of representation in Herzl and Kafka.(Abstract)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author explores a semantic field shared by two authors who were associated with Zionism to different degrees: Theodor Herzl and Franz Kafka. Rather than suggesting influence or borrowing, she shows that Herzl and Kafka employed the tropes of the legal profession, particularly ...
Zionism and the rhetoric of Jewish self-hatred.(Abstract)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author's aim is to offer a fresh genealogy of that enduringly controversial term, "Jewish self-hatred." In the first part of the article, the author seeks to show how a general rhetoric of Jewish self-hatred developed not so much as a means of diagnosing a psychological ...
Jewish Tragedy and Caliban: Arnold Zweig, Zionism and Antisemitism.
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author explores Zweig's drama Die Sendung Semaels: Judische Tragodie in funf Aufzugen and his essay Caliban oder Politik und Leidenschaft. He also focuses on Zweig's understanding of tragedy and the elements used to create a "Jewish tragedy." Linking it with the aspects of ...
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. The Legacy of German Jewry.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. The Legacy of German Jewry. Trans. David Suchoff. New York: Fordham UP, 2007. Pp. 265. Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's book Das Vermachtnis des deutschen Judentums (1957), recently published in an English translation by David Suchoff as The Legacy of ...
Erin H. McGlothlin. Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Erin H. McGlothlin. Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration. Rochester: Camden House, 2006. Pp. 254. What could now justifiably be named "second-generation Holocaust studies" was pioneered by researchers in the psychotherapeutic fields ...
The work of art as theory of work: relationality in the works of Weiss and Negt & Kluge.
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Peter Weiss first met Alexander Kluge at a special 1962 meeting of Gruppe 47 dedicated to cinema. Weiss left records of this and other subsequent meetings in ensuing years. After an extended hiatus, Kluge (along with Oskar Negt) reappeared in Weiss's notebooks in the guise of ...
Fantasies, echoes, and whispers: the experience of World War I in Peter Weiss's Abschied von den Eltern and Die Asthetik des Widerstands.
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The author argues for the previously unexamined significance of World War I in Weiss's oeuvre and for Weiss's unique position in this highly influential literary tradition of imagining war through the figure of an uncommunicative witness to catastrophe. The story of the soldier ...
The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance: Peter Weiss.(Abstract)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: In contemporary poetics, the term "pathos" does not seem to occupy much of a place and its former semantic range--external event and inner experience; spontaneous affect and reflective distance; passive and active--has become largely unavailable to us. The author enlists the ...
Geoff Eley. A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Geoff Eley. A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Pp. 320. Geoff Eley has played a unique role in the field of German history for more than two decades. Although he came to prominence with a path-breaking monograph on ...
Harry Lehmann. Die fluchtige Wahrheit der Kunst.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Harry Lehmann. Die fluchtige Wahrheit der Kunst. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006. Pp. 394. Just as Hegel's philosophy was continued in different ways by his students and followers after his death, so, too, can we already see various distinct trends among Niklas Luhmann's ...
Brad Prager. Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Brad Prager. Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2007, Pp. 287. In Brad Prager's new book, "image" evokes an array of associations and meanings ...
Alice A. Kuzniar. Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Alice A. Kuzniar. Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. Pp. 215. It is not that often that I come across a review of an academic book in Bark (Jan/Feb 2007), but this is just one of many unusual experiences I ...
Sara Lennox. Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Sara Lennox. Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2006. Pp. 387. In den Jahrzehnten seiner Rezeption ist das Werk der osterreichischen Schriftstellerin Ingeborg Bachmann auf beiden Seiten des Atlantik zum ...