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Thomas Mann’s political writings between 1914 and 1918 Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Wojciech Engelking
The subject of this article is Thomas Mann's political writings from 1914 to 1918 and their place on the map of his work. The author argues that texts such as Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, con...
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The Forgotten Father: Freedom and its Foes in Karl Jaspers’ Post-war Writings Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Robbie Spiers
Largely forgotten today, Karl Jaspers was one of the foremost public figures in post-war Germany to champion the idea of liberty, offering a unique blend of paternalist and populist politics. Freed...
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Den Stil aus dem Stoff kommen lassen … Die DDR im Spiegel literarisch inszenierter Naivität in Texten der entgrenzten Generation Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Katarzyna Norkowska
Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags steht die Ästhetik des Erinnerns an die DDR, gezeigt am Beispiel der literarisch inszenierten Naivität als eines der Erzählmuster der Entgrenzten Generation (1960–1972)....
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Between the Lines: Punctuation in English Translations of Die Marquise von O … Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Rachel MagShamhráin
This article examines the translation of Kleist’s punctuation in the context of his novella The Marquise of O … in which one em-dash in particular is, by tradition, burdened with particular signifi...
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‘To the Future Turned, We Stand’: Progress and the Temporal Politics of Citizenship in the German Democratic Republic Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Melina Mandelbaum
In both parts of post-war Germany, the promise of progress played a central role in imagining and implementing new frameworks of social belonging and their formalization in the institution of citiz...
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Tales that Touch: Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Franziska Wolf
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2023)
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Hartmann von Aue: Erec/Ereck. Ein editionsphilologischer und texthermeneutischer Zielkonflikt? Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Julia Frick
Mit zunehmendem Wandel der Forschungsparadigmen erweist sich die Vermittlung zwischen den Prinzipien einer modernen philologischen Editionspraxis und der texthermeneutisch verfahrenden literarische...
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Kleidung und der mystische Körper: Von physischen Ankerpunkten unbeschreiblicher Erfahrungen Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Julia Lorenz
Kleidung und Investitur, der Prozess des Einkleidens, spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur. In der mystischen Literatur liegt Kleidung am Seelenleib an und erscheint als...
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Grace in a Time of War: Herder’s ‘Das Fest der Grazien’ between Schiller and Hölderlin Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 James Rasmussen
This article situates Herder’s little-read essay ‘Das Fest der Grazien’ (1795) in the conceptual history of grace between Schiller and Hölderlin. All three authors champion grace as an answer to mo...
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Ferdinand Grimms Geschichte Der Burgherr im Kontext der Homosozialität Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Tomasz Małyszek
The present analysis focuses on the relationship between two knights described in the text Der Burgherr, which could be an extrapolation of Ferdinand Grimm's alleged homoerotic desire. However, the...
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Alternative Geschichtsschreibung über Die Wendezeit im deutschen Kriminalroman Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Wolfgang Brylla
Seit Robert Harris’ Bestsellerroman Vaterland und dem damit verbundenen Leseerfolg erfreut sich das kontrafaktische Erzählen in der literarischen Welt einer immer größer werdenden Beliebtheit. Unte...
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Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Chandrika Kumar
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2023)
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Ulrike Draesner, this porous fabric, übersetzt von Iain Galbraith Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Monika Wolting
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2023)
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Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Paul Bishop
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2023)
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Gardening in Exile: Place, Identity and Ecology in the Poetry of Michael Hamburger Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Axel Goodbody
‘Seit fast vierzig Jahren ist das Gärtnern neben dem Schreiben meine Hauptbeschäftigung’, Michael Hamburger wrote in 1994, and around this time commentators began to refer to him as a gardener as w...
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The Contribution of Andreas Mytze — Bookseller, Publisher and Publicist — To Exile Literature and Exile Studies in Great Britain Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Jennifer Taylor
In July 2021 Andreas Mytze died in London, where he had lived since the mid nineteen-eighties. Based on his extensive archive as well as his published material this paper offers an assessment of hi...
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Ian Wallace (1942–2021) Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Pól Ó Dochartaigh
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 52, No. 3, 2023)
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Contemporary Ukrainian writers as an ‘avant-garde’ of exile in the German literary field? Katja Petrowskaja and Kateryna Mishchenko Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Sabine Egger
In a recent podcast Kateryna Mishchenko asked whether she, as a Ukrainian author, has the right to participate in German discourses, and whether she can do so through the German language. This refe...
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‘Emigrantendeutsch’ oder ‘urwüchsige Sprachbegabung’? Pikarische Erzählverfahren bei Albert Vigoleis Thelen und Günter Grass und die Abwertung der Exilliteratur durch die Gruppe 47 Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Christoph Schmitt-Maaß
Bei der Lesung seines ‘Schelmenromans’ Die Insel des zweiten Gesichts vor der Gruppe 47 wurde der Exilant Albert Vigoleis Thelen 1953 massiv ob seines ‘Emigrantendeutsch’ kritisiert. Nur sechs Jahr...
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Auf der Suche nach einem anderen Mozart. Eduard Breiers Kritik an der Biographieschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Katarzyna Szczerbowska-Prusevicius
Im 19. Jahrhundert gewinnt das heroische Narrativ eine zuvor unbekannte Gewichtung. Der Begriff des Helden wird in dieser Zeit erweitert und bezeichnet nunmehr nicht nur physisch starke, tapfere Männer, die dem Urtypus Herakles ähneln, sondern auch Intellektuelle und Künstler. In den Konzeptionen des Heroischen wird die exzeptionelle Leistung eines Einzelnen mit einem tragischen Schicksal verknüpft
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Juno and the Pearl Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Divya Menon
Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland (1797–1799) plays with the Bildungsroman as a literary form. As a story of the coming-of-age of the novel itself, it is a Künstlerroman as well. When the narrator fails in his worldly aspirations, he chooses the life of a hermit. His book becomes his cloister. This essay will study Hölderlin's novel as a response to Friedrich Schiller's
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Zur ästhetischen und geschichtlichen Ambivalenz des deutschen Expressionismus Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Dominik Pietzcker
Der deutschsprachige literarische Expressionismus gilt als das typische Beispiel der modernistischen Avantgarde im ersten Jahrzehnt des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Tradierte ästhetische Formen und ihr ideologischer Überbau wurden konsequent abgelehnt. Der Expressionismus war, emphatisch gesprochen, der Versuch, über die Kunst das individuelle und gesellschaftliche Leben zu revolutionieren. Ist dieser
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Kritik und Autonomie: Die Programmatik in Elfriede Jelineks Romanen und Essays (1968–1975) Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Kristian Larsson
While Elfriede Jelinek scholars agree that the increasing social relevance of the early novels bukolit, wir sind lockvögel baby!, Michael and Die Liebhaberinnen is vaguely linked to a social, political, cultural or aesthetic critique, the ‘programmatic’ platform, if there is one, as well as its specific textual manifestations remain largely unexamined. Likewise, the ‘programmatic’ essays Statement
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Over Her Undead Body: Revenant Suicide in Heiner Müller’s Die Hamletmaschine and Elfriede Jelinek’s Ulrike Maria Stuart Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Kaleen Gallagher
The figure of the undead woman suicide features prominently in the œuvres of both Heiner Müller and Elfriede Jelinek. This article examines the significance of that figure to Müller’s Die Hamletmaschine and Jelinek’s Ulrike Maria Stuart, two plays about what kind of political action is possible in the modern media society. It argues that while Ophelia’s return from the dead is depicted as a challenge
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Später ‘Triumph’ einer ostdeutschen Generation. Narrative der Funktionierenden Generation im Erinnerungsdiskurs um 2020 Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Katarzyna Norkowska
Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird der späte Ruhm von Helga Schubert, Helga Schütz, Irina Liebmann und Elke Erb erörtert, die mit ihren um 2020 veröffentlichten Texten einen Beitrag zum ostdeutschen Erinnerungsdiskurs leisten. Die Wortmeldungen von Autorinnen einer bis dato im öffentlichen Diskurs zu kurz gekommenen Generation sollten — so die These des Beitrags — nicht allein auf die Mechanismen des literarischen
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Reframing ‘Gastarbeiter’ Migration: Family, Photography and Cultural Memory in Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Paul Leworthy
Interpreting it as constitutive and representative of the film’s exploration of cultural memory processes, this article identifies an abundance of frames in Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland. Visual frames — frequently in the form of photographs — abound in the film. At the same time, the film’s narrative structure entwines present and past temporal frames, with the latter embedded into the former
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The Arts, Culture, and the Evolution of the White Rose Resistance Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Alexandra Lloyd
This Introduction to the special issue The White Rose and the Uses of Culture addresses the role of culture and the arts in the history and reception of the Weiße Rose resistance circle. Literature, music, and the visual arts were at the centre of the student resisters’ lives: they brought and bound them together, and profoundly influenced their ways of seeing the world. They were also the subject
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Goethe’s Politics and Political Uses: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Readings of Des Epimenides Erwachen Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Ellen Pilsworth
This article examines the first leaflet produced by the anti-Nazi White Rose group in 1942, focusing on its use of a quotation from Goethe’s festival play Des Epimenides Erwachen. I begin by exploring the appropriation of Goethe by the Nazi Regime, in particular the instrumentalisation of his works during wartime. In contrast, I then consider how the White Rose use their chosen Goethe passage to send
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Sparta and the Abendland: The Quotations from Friedrich Schiller and Theodor Körner in the Leaflets of the Weisse Rose Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Kevin Hilliard
The article considers the quotations from Friedrich Schiller’s essay ‘Die Gesetzgebung des Lykurgus und Solon’ (1789), from the first leaflet of the Weiße Rose, and the unattributed quotation from a poem by Theodor Körner in the sixth and last. The political issues raised in the leaflets are brought into focus by a comparison with the avowed Spartophilia of the Nazi regime and its academic camp-followers
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Philology and Responsibility: The Weisse Rose Pamphlets and Classical Quotations Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Constanze Güthenke
This paper examines the use of classical quotations in the third pamphlet of the Weiße Rose. Looking in detail at their references to Cicero’s On Laws and Aristotle’s Politics, I show their careful selective citational practices and situate those in turn within some of the developments and priorities of the reception of antiquity in early twentieth century Germany. Finally, I use the case of the evaluations
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‘Christliche und Abendländische Kultur’? Readings of Augustine and Ecclesiastes in the White Rose Pamphlets Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Daniel Lloyd
This article examines the use of references to specifically Christian texts in the White Rose pamphlets. It situates them in their original context, and argues that, whilst the pamphlets of the White Rose are not framed as theological works, the intended audience includes those who are familiar with such a cultural perspective, as is the case with references to other literary and philosophical works
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Why Theodor Haecker Spoke to the White Rose Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Helena M. Tomko
This article considers the resonance of Theodor Haecker’s writing within the White Rose movement. Haecker met with the students multiple times in 1942, the year they circulated their first five leaflets, and on 4 February 1943, two weeks before the final leaflet’s distribution. Why did this Catholic inner exile, translator of Newman and Kierkegaard, and one-time Weimar public intellectual speak to
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Culture in Times of Crisis: Auerbach, Czapski, Nafisi Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Karolina Watroba
This article considers three examples of engagement with cultural texts in times of crisis to show how the White Rose pamphlets fit into a broader tradition. The three examples are: Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), written in exile in Istanbul during WWII, Józef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (1948), based on lectures
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Woran erkennt man einen Klassiker? Frontispize und Kupfertitel als Klassifizierungsinstrumente in Werkausgaben Zeitgenössischer Autoren im 18. Jahrhundert Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Daniel Fulda
Der Kostenaufwand für Buchillustrationen, den Verleger und Käufer auf sich nehmen, soll häufig zugleich ästhetische Kostbarkeit signalisieren. Eine spezifischere Wertauszeichnung als ‘Klassiker’ ist zudem möglich vermittels bestimmter Bildsemantiken. Der Beitrag untersucht, wie Frontispize und Kupfertitel im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert dafür eingesetzt wurden, dem Publikum ad oculos zu demonstrieren
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Visual Literary Criticism and Eighteenth-Century Literary Illustration. Introduction Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Sandro Jung
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2022)
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Buchillustration als Textinterpretation und Literaturkritik im 18 Jahrhundert: Spielarten, Funktionsspektrum, Transformationen Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Anett Lütteken
Im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts wandelten sich Darstellungsformen und Verwendungszusammenhänge von Buchillustrationen auf markante Weise. Ausgehend von der Überlegung, dass dieser Stil- und Funktionswandel schlaglichtartig auch die Errungenschaften des Zeitalters der Aufklärung selbst erhellt, wird im Beitrag der Emanzipationsprozess des Schauens als sukzessive Befreiung von Bildkonventionen typologisch
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Preissler’s Plates for Zachariae’s Die Tageszeiten (1756): Strategies of Iconotextual Meaning-Making and Visual Criticism Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Sandro Jung
This article examines the set of four full-page illustrations and a title-page vignette that the Rostock publisher Johann Christian Koppe commissioned Johann Justin Preißler to produce for his edition of Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae’s Die Tageszeiten (1756). It offers an account of the ways in which the plates fulfil a literary-critical function of making textual knowledge present by reordering
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G. L. Crusius’s Visual-Critical Reading of Lichtwer’s Das Recht der Vernunft (1758) Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Kwinten Van De Walle
This article focuses on the headpiece engravings produced by the Leipzig-based artist Gottlieb Leberecht Crusius for Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer’s philosophical-didactic poem Das Recht der Vernunft (1758). An analysis of the designs demonstrates how the visual paratexts generate textual meaning and function as an iconic lens, bringing into focus in new ways the abstract contents of the poem. Developing
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Perspectives on German Ecocriticism: Introduction Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Katie Ritson, Daniela Dora
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2022)
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Communing with Figs and Palm Trees. Nature Mysticism, Migration and Moral Maturity in Marica Bodrožić Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Yvonne Zivkovic
In her writings, the German-Croatian author Marica Bodrožić develops a new form of feminist ecocriticism from a postmigrant perspective, which portrays the mystical encounter with the natural world as essential for the understanding of the postmodern self and the survival of diverse postmigrant communities. Drawing on Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of moral maturity, Bodrožić suggests that the epistemological
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Rainer Maria Rilke’s Dark Ecology Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Robert Craig
Rainer Maria Rilke’s significance for a modern eco-poetics has attracted ever-increasing interest over the past two decades, with sophisticated ontological, phenomenological, and even ethological approaches to his animal poems, as well as such late poetic figures as ‘das Offene’ in Duineser Elegien (1923). However, many of these readings have worked from the persistent premise of a mystical — Romantically
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Plastic and Queer Desire — A Queer Ecological Reading of Josef Winkler’s Contemporary Writing Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Daniela Dora
This paper examines the relationship between plastic matter and the queer in Roppongi. Requiem für einen Vater (2007) and Der Stadtschreiber von Kalkutta (2019), two texts by contemporary Austrian author Josef Winkler that depict the narrators’ travels to India and Japan. Two modes of critique within queer ecological theory are found to be fruitful for the analysis of Winkler’s text: a ‘queer as noun’
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An axe for the rising sea: Kafka’s Anthropocene afterlives Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Conor Brennan
This article analyses the influence of Franz Kafka on contemporary writers who engage with the climate emergency, focusing in particular on the Australian writer Richard Flanagan and the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. This transnational corpus is warranted not only by the scale of the crisis, but also by Kafka’s status as a writer whose work refuses to sit neatly within the borders of a nation or ‘Nationalsprache’
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Feminism, Disability, and a Dragon: Transcending Classification in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Mansarde Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Kassi Burnett
This article analyzes Marlen Haushofer’s final novel, Die Mansarde (1969), through the critical lenses of disability studies and ecocriticism. Using these combined methods of analysis, the article uncovers a critique of species-specific bodily norms. Additionally, the article follows the protagonist’s evolution from outsider to resilient woman as she increasingly questions and eventually rejects these
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Nature and femininity in Raphaela Edelbauer’s Das flüssige Land — Fluid concepts in a liquid land Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander
An allegedly unspoilt natural landscape is a crucial backbone of Austria’s national brand and yet, a look behind the façade of this ‘Goldener Landschaftsmythos’, reveals that nature plays a complex and paradoxical role in Austrian self-stylisation and culture: the very system that relies on its pristineness exploits and degrades it. Edelbauer’s 2019 novel Das flüssige Land draws on this tension and
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Deconstructing Utopia: Nature, Colonialism and Satire in Christian Kracht’s Imperium (2012) Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Katharina Forster
While there is a conspicuous link between utopian conjectures and natural space, the accelerated environmental degradation in the Anthropocene has significantly blunted the utopian appeal of ‘untainted’ nature. A similar crisis afflicts notions of utopia as ‘undiscovered’ space following Reinhart Koselleck’s ‘temporalization’ of utopian speculation. These developments complicate or make impossible
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‘Schüttelt ab die — Europäer!’: Radikale Kolonialismuskritik im Gedicht ‘Audubon’ von Ferdinand Freiligrath Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Robert Rduch
Der vorliegende Aufsatz ist ein Beitrag zur Ergänzung der Materialbasis für eine künftige postkoloniale Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Es wird in ihm auf das Gedicht ‘Audubon’ (1833) von Ferdinand Freiligrath als ein seltenes Beispiel radikaler Kolonialismuskritik aus der ersten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts hingewiesen. Eine überblicksartig dargestellte Rezeptionsgeschichte des
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The vanquished Heroes of Europe — Stefan Zweig’s Poetics of Defeat in The World of Yesterday Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Stephan Resch
The ‘victor in defeat’ (Donald Daviau) has long been a key concept in Stefan Zweig scholarship. This reversal of the traditional hero narrative has been applied to understand how Zweig constructs his historical biographies, drawing on both his understanding of history and his convictions about the moral responsibilities of the writer. It has also been used to demonstrate how Zweig values defeat as
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Ulrich Plenzdorf’s kein runter kein fern: Disability, Masculinity, and Literary Social Criticism in the Period 1976–1991 Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Sebastian Balling
In this article, I analyse Ulrich Plenzdorf’s novel kein runter kein fern, an often-overlooked text critiquing the society of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the late 1970s that focuses primarily on the theme of disability. Plenzdorf’s protagonist, a boy with a mild learning disability, is pressured to develop a masculine body to overcome his mental handicap. Analysing the story from a perspective
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A City of Words: José F. A. Oliver’s Istanbul Poems Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Franz R. Kempf
José F. A. Oliver’s experimental urban aesthetics requires a rethinking of the iconic figure of the flâneur. In Oliver’s Istanbul poems, the flâneur is disembodied, giving way to a peripatetic consciousness that engages the experiential heterogeneity of the encounter with the city on multiple levels — emotional, visual, cognitive, rhythmic, auditory, verbal — and versifies this engagement as a city
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(Licht)Bilder aus dem Off. Mehrfachbelichtetes Shoah-Erinnern in Graphic Memoirs Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Gudrun Heidemann
Fotografien werden in Comics gemeinhin handwerklich abstrahiert, wodurch es zu einer medialen Abkühlung (McLuhan) und Remediation (Bolter, Grusin) kommt. Wenn (Licht)Bilder als Zeitzeugnisse Graphic Memoirs in den Innenseiten von Front- und Rückencover rahmen, so provozieren diese Aufnahmen aus dem Off eine performative Rezeption im blätternden Nachvollzug, um einen Abgleich mit dem Nachgezeichneten
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Nigel F. Palmer Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Jim Reed, Henrike Lähnemann
Published in Oxford German Studies (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2022)
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From Reformation Wittenberg to Civil War Oxford: A Humanist Bible in the Fellows’ Library of Jesus College, Oxford Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Anna Linton
A Greek folio bible published in 1545, containing both Old and New Testaments, is testimony to the collaboration of two important figures: Philipp Melanchthon, author of the preface, and the Basel printer Johannes Herwagen. The volume’s interest for the historian of the book is enhanced by inscriptions on its endpapers from Melanchthon and other humanists and reformers (Georg Major, Joachim Camerarius
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‘Polen! Herd des Märtyrtums Um Die Sünden der Welt!’ Polenbilder in Gespräche mit Dämonen von Bettina von Arnim Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Nina Nowara-Matusik
This article analyses the divergent traditional stereotypes of Poland—the ‘Sarmatic’ and the ‘Messianic’—in Bettina von Arnim’s Gespräche mit Dämonen (1852). Her very positive view of Poland coincides with deep-rooted Polish self-images, but depoliticises them into something genuinely poetic.
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Freud’s Queer Fellow: Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary Modernism Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Agnieszka Sobolewska
The article aims to interpret the psychoanalytical thought of Georg Groddeck (1866–1934) presented in his post-1918 literary works and essays. In 1917, Groddeck contacted Sigmund Freud and thereby entered German-language psychoanalytic circles. In 1921, he published a psychoanalytic novel titled Der Seelensucher. Ein psychoanalytischer Roman. Two years later, he followed it by The Book of the It. Psychoanalytic
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Heinrich Böll heute: Ansichten zu seinem Roman Gruppenbild mit Dame Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Hans Hahn
Böll’s famous novel seems in danger of being forgotten; this paper attempts to demonstrate its enduring topicality and relevance to the present day. It focuses on three themes: concern for humanity (Menschlichkeit), rejection of a capitalist market economy, and a re-evaluation of the concept of ‘wastefulness’, including racist and economic aspects. Set in Germany over half a century (1920–1971), Böll’s
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‘ … wie eine unregelmäßige Wiederholung der Vergangenheit’: Time and History in Theodora Bauer’s Novel Chikago (2017) Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Ludwig Deringer
The second novel of Theodora Bauer (b. 1990) demonstrates the importance of historical awareness in contemporary Austrian literature and the significance of the ‘temporal turn’ in literary studies, time studies, and memory studies. Chikago is a Zeitroman in a double sense, referencing historical time and reflecting on time as such. Predicated on Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ewige Wiederkunft’, it turns
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Text und Stadt in der Pandemie. Zur funktionalen Klassifikation von öffentlichen Texten in der Coronakrise Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Roman Opiłowski
In times of the corona virus, social coexistence is changing in many spheres, including communication in the public space of cities. Communication reacted to interpersonal needs and expectations in multimodal texts with formal, content and functional design means. In this article, individual text types are classified to illustrate the functional spectrum of multimodal communication in the city. The
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Geburt Einer Zeitschrift Aus Dem Geiste Des Archivs Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-06 T. J. Reed
(2021). Geburt Einer Zeitschrift Aus Dem Geiste Des Archivs. Oxford German Studies: Vol. 50, 50th Anniversary Issue, pp. 380-388.
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German Studies at Oxford: Past and Future Oxford German Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Ritchie Robertson