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The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other
critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and
public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in
German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is one of the
most important postwar writers in German. Her work is enmeshed with
the intellectual and cultural developments of the period: she was
influenced by European modernism in the early 1950s, experienced
the sweeping changes of the 60s, and worked until her death in 1973
on her celebrated and sprawling "Todesarten" (Ways of Death)
project, on the decades following National Socialism. Her poetry
and prose confront what she called "the sickness of our time": the
subtle connection between patriarchal society, catastrophic history
in the form of National Socialism, and the subjugation of the
Other. Even during her lifetime, Bachmann achieved a prominent
position in postwar German-language literature. Interest in her
literary output increased sharply in the early 1980s with the
publication of the first edition of her works, and has been growing
steadily ever since. Bachmann's impact on German literature is
comparable to that of Virginia Woolf on English literature. Just as
an appreciation of Woolf's poetic oeuvre, and that of other women
writers, is impossible without reference to "A Room of One's Own,"
the critical writings of Bachmann enhance our awareness of not only
her own works, but also those of many other writers, philosophers,
and artists. As the only translation of Bachmann's essays,
lectures, speeches, and theoretical texts into English, The
Critical Writings will be a valuable tool for students of
Comparative Literature and German literature and cultural studies.
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization
for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one
of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work
encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative
theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the
intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography,
and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the
task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the
past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new
significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of
actualization as its methodological program in offering a new
advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze
Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in
their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new
parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture,
constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban
topographies. The Companion brings together an international group
of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's
actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for
audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and
neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new
debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors:
Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik
Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan
Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is
Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of
WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization
for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one
of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work
encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative
theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the
intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography,
and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the
task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the
past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new
significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of
actualization as its methodological program in offering a new
advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze
Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in
their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new
parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture,
constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban
topographies. The Companion brings together an international group
of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's
actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for
audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and
neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new
debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors:
Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik
Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan
Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is
Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of
WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
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