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New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic
relationships and love in German literature since around the turn
of the millennium. While sociologists have long agreed that the
problems of modern and contemporary subjectivity crystallize in the
issue of romantic relationships and love (e.g., Luhmann, Illouz,
Beck, etc.), the theme of love, so crucial to the foundational text
of modern German literature, Goethe's Werther, all but disappeared
from German prose literature in the second half of the twentieth
century. Yet over the past fifteen years German-language literature
has witnessed an explosion of novels with "Liebe" in their titles
as well as novels that centrally focus on intersubjective erotic
and emotional relationships. A number of major contemporary writers
(Treichel, Walser, Kermani, Ortheil, Maron, Zaimoglu, Genazino)
have written Liebesromane or novels in which significant
sociohistorical questions are refracted through the love
relationships of their protagonists. German film likewise has
increasingly thematized love relationships under postromantic
conditions, e.g. in the films of the Berlin school. Simultaneously,
the development of both feminist and LGBTQ politics over the past
decades has exploded the heteronormative discourses ofdesire in a
way that has both expanded and enriched the lovers' discourse,
while recent developments of urban (hetero)sexuality have expanded
the previously available models of expressing erotic relationships
in ways that are reminiscent of the utopian ending of Goethe's
first version of Stella. The present collection offers a
wide-ranging set of essays on these developments. Contributors:
Esther K. Bauer, Sven Glawion, Silke Horstkotte,Sarra Kassem, Maria
Roca Lizarazu, Helmut Schmitz, Angelika Vybiral. Helmut Schmitz is
Reader in German at the University of Warwick. Peter Davies is
Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh.
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other
creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's.
Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman
creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in
English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and
ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by
an array of international scholars from various fields, and
represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of
exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures
in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the literary and
philosophical significance of his preoccupation with animals, and
make clear that careful investigation of those creatures
illuminates his core concerns: the nature of power; the
inescapability of history and guilt; the dangers, promise, and
strangeness of the alienation endemic to modern life; the human
propensity for cruelty and oppression; the limits and conditions of
humanity and the risks of dehumanization; the nature of
authenticity; family life; Jewishness; and the nature of language
and art. Thus the essays in this volume enrich our understanding of
Kafka's work as a whole. Especially striking is the extent to which
the articles collected here bring into focus the ways in which
Kafka anticipated many of the recent developments in contemporary
thinking about nonhuman animals.
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other
creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's.
Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman
creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in
English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and
ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by
an array of international scholars from various fields, and
represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of
exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures
in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the literary and
philosophical significance of his preoccupation with animals, and
make clear that careful investigation of those creatures
illuminates his core concerns: the nature of power; the
inescapability of history and guilt; the dangers, promise, and
strangeness of the alienation endemic to modern life; the human
propensity for cruelty and oppression; the limits and conditions of
humanity and the risks of dehumanization; the nature of
authenticity; family life; Jewishness; and the nature of language
and art. Thus the essays in this volume enrich our understanding of
Kafka's work as a whole. Especially striking is the extent to which
the articles collected here bring into focus the ways in which
Kafka anticipated many of the recent developments in contemporary
thinking about nonhuman animals.
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