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Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking
contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new
understandings. As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound
studies is a firmly established field of inquiry, examining how
sonic events and auditory experiences unfold in culturally and
historically contingent life situations. Responding to new
questions in sound studies in the context of German-speaking
cultures, and incorporating up-to-date methodologies, this
Companion explores the significance of sound from the Middle Ages
and the classical-romantic period through high-capitalist
industrial modernity, the Nazi period and the Holocaust, and
postwar Germany to the present digital age. The volume examines how
sonic events are represented in literary fiction, radio
productions, cinema, newsreels, documentaries, sound art, museum
exhibitions, and other media, drawing for this inquiry on
philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, musicology, art theory,
and cultural studies. Each essay is a case study - of persons,
events, and sonic, visual, or textual artifacts - situating them in
wider contexts of culture, history, and politics. The volume not
only revisits well-known topics from new angles, but seeks
especially to explore neglected issues on the cultural periphery.
It assembles original essays by leaders in the field and emerging
scholars from the United States and Europe. Offering an advanced
introduction to the topic, the Companion is addressed to anyone
interested in how the analysis of sound phenomena opens up new
understandings of German-speaking cultures.
New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern
writers, Franz Kafka. No other 20th-century writer of
German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the
canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly,
enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues
to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in
turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear:
although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one
key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a
strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka
research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this
volume. Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H.
Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry
Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard
T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark
Harman James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke
University.
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 interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of
technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well
as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era.
Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting
is an expression of individual and societal self-understanding.
Through collections, cultures learn and grow. The introduction of
digital technology has accelerated this process and at the same
time changed how, what, and why we collect. Ever-expanding storage
capacities and the accumulation of unprecedented amounts of data
are part of a highly complex information economy in which
collecting has become even more important for the formation of the
past, present, and future. Museums, libraries, and archives have
adapted to the requirements of a digital environment, as has anyone
who browses the internet and stores information on hard drives or
cloud servers. In turn, companies follow the digital footprint we
leave behind. Today, collecting includes not only physical objects
but also the binary code that allows for their virtual
representation on screen. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century
identifies the impact of technology, both new and old, on the
cultural practice of collecting as well as the challenges and
opportunities of collecting in the digital era. Scholars from
German Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Sound Studies,
Information Technology, and Art History as well as librarians and
preservationists offer insights into the most recent developments
in collecting practices.
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Goethe Yearbook 29 (Hardcover)
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Volume 29 features articles on Anton Reiser; the legacies of German
romanticism; Goethe's morphology and computational analysis; Goethe
commemorations in Argentina; and Goethe's Weltliteratur in the
context of trade with China, along with two special sections and
the book review. Volume 29 features articles on Anton Reiser; the
legacies and myths of German romanticism; Goethe's morphology as
antecedent to computational analysis; on Goethe commemorations in
Argentina; and a reconsideration of Goethe's Weltliteratur in the
context of Handelsverkehr (trade) with China. Additionally, volume
29 features two special sections. The first commemorates an
anniversary, Hoelderlin's 250th birthday, with work devoted to
"Reading and Exhibiting," compiled by Meike Werner. The other
special section, on movement and edited by Heidi Schlipphacke,
further explores research featured at MLA 2021 and revisits many
questions of sentimentalism, visuality, and narration that are at
the core of canon formation and eighteenth-century thresholds of
modernity. As always, the book review section, edited by Sean
Franzel, concludes the volume.
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.
No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century
has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as
Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world depicted
in Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and
critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new
readings. One thing has become wholly clear: although all theories
attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The
challenge to critics has been to present a strong point of view
while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that
has been met by the contributors to this volume. The essays follow
an introduction by the editor,and include: Clayton Koelb on the
controversial question of Kafka editions; Walter H. Sokel on a life
of reading--and writing about--Kafka; Judith Ryan on the early
stories; Russell A. Berman on tradition and betrayal in `The
Judgment'; Ritchie Robertson on anti-Christian elements in `The
Judgment,' `The Metamorphosis,' and the aphorisms; Henry Sussman on
Kafka's evolving aesthetics; Stanley Corngold on The Trial; Bianca
Theisen on Kafka's use of circus motifs in the stories `Up in the
Gallery' and `First Sorrow'; Rolf J. Goebel on the connection of
Kafka's The Missing Person, `In the Penal Colony,' and `The Great
Wall of China' to postcolonial critique; Richard T. Gray on the
semiotics and aesthetics of `In the Penal Colony'; Ruth V. Gross on
the `enigmatics' of the short fiction; Sander L. Gilman on Kafka's
Jewishness and the story `The Country Doctor'; John Zilcosky on the
colonial visionsin The Castle; Mark Harman on the variants to The
Castle and what they tell us about Kafka's writing process; and
Clayton Koelb on Kafka's rhetoric in the late stories `Josephine
the Singer' and `The Burrow.' James Rolleston is Emeritus Professor
of German at Duke University and has written widely on topics in
modern German literature.
Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization
of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have
given rise to the term "Kafkaesque." This encyclopedia details
Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800
alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family
members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the
entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes
with a selected, general bibliography. Included are entries on
Kafka's works, characters, themes, family members, acquaintances,
and other topics, such as: Abraham Absurd Animals Bureaucracy
Colonialism Death Don Quixote Sigmund Freud Guilt Irony Judaism K.
Thomas Mann Nihilism And many more. Entries often cite works for
further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected,
general bibliography.
Kafka's interest in and use of China establish him as a principal
commentator in Western discourse on the Orient. Goebel studies four
representative works by Kafka that explore the problems of the
Western representation of the Orient: his 'Description of a
Struggle'; several letters to Felice Bauer, offering an
interpretation of Chinese poetry in connection with the conflict
between writing and Kafka's love for Felice; the canonical story
'The Great Wall of China', parodically appropriating sterotypes of
China's stagnant history and authoritarian emperors for a
refutation of colonialist ideas of progress; and the sequel 'An Old
Manuscript', dramatising China's invasion by foreign powers and the
breakdown of crosscultural communication. Elucidating these themes
from a broadly comparative perspective, Goebel shows Kafka to be
one of German modernism's most intriguing and self-reflective
writers on the Orient. ROLF J. GOEBEL is Professor of German at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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