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  1. Demonic history
    from Goethe to the present
    Author: Wetters, Kirk
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English; German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literatur; Dämon <Motiv>; Deutsch; Teufel <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (mesh)Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Criticism and interpretation; (fast)1800 - 1899; (lcsh)Demonology in literature; (lcsh)German literature--19th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)Devil in literature.; (fast)Demonology in literature.; (fast)Devil in literature.; (fast)German literature.; (gnd)Deutsch.; (gnd)Literatur.; (gnd)Dämonie.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 253 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.. - Urworte Goethisch : demonic primal words -- Demons of morphology -- Biographical demons (Goethe's Poetry and truth) -- The unhappy endings of morphology : Oswald Spengler's demonic history -- Demonic ambivalences : Walter Benjamin's counter-morphology -- Georg Lukacs and the demonic novel -- Demonic inheritances : Heimito von Doderer's The demons -- Conclusion. transformations of the demonic -- Appendix : German text and English translation of Goethe's "Urworte orphisch" (with commentary)
  2. The making of a terrorist
    on classic German rogues
    Author: Champlin, Jeffrey
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

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  3. Demonic history
    from Goethe to the present
    Author: Wetters, Kirk
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Northwestern Univ. Press, Evanston, Ill.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780810129764; 9780810132535
    Series: German studies
    Subjects: Teufel <Motiv>; Literatur; Dämon <Motiv>; Deutsch
    Other subjects: (mesh)Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Criticism and interpretation; (fast)1800 - 1899; (lcsh)Demonology in literature; (lcsh)German literature--19th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)Devil in literature.; (fast)Demonology in literature.; (fast)Devil in literature.; (fast)German literature.; (gnd)Deutsch.; (gnd)Literatur.; (gnd)Dämonie.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: XV, 253 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.. - Urworte Goethisch : demonic primal words -- Demons of morphology -- Biographical demons (Goethe's Poetry and truth) -- The unhappy endings of morphology : Oswald Spengler's demonic history -- Demonic ambivalences : Walter Benjamin's counter-morphology -- Georg Lukacs and the demonic novel -- Demonic inheritances : Heimito von Doderer's The demons -- Conclusion. transformations of the demonic -- Appendix : German text and English translation of Goethe's "Urworte orphisch" (with commentary)
  4. Animals and humans in German literature, 1800-2000
    exploring the great divide
    Contributor: Bosco, Lorella (Herausgeber); Latini, Micaela (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Zusammenfassung: The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but also established new concepts and methods for revising conventional cultural dichotomies (subject and object, human and animal). The 10 essays collected in this volume are devoted to a wide range of case studies on the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 18th century. They display a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a number of texts packed with references to animals, considered not primarily as objects of literature, but as agents endowed with an active role in the production of literature, and which have left repressed or forgotten traces in texts.

     
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  5. China im Bild der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1989
    Author: Zhu, Liangliang
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Verlag, Oxford

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  6. At the limit of the obscene
    German realism and the disgrace of matter
    Author: Weitzman, Erica
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    Zusammenfassung: "At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter examines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature"--(Provided by publisher.) more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter examines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  7. Berlin légendes ou la mémoire des décombres
    une capitale littéraire en rêveries et conversations
    Author: Morel, Olivier
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Saint-Denis

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  8. De la destruction
    comme élément de l'histoire naturelle
    Author: Sebald, W. G.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Actes Sud, Arles

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  9. The writers' state
    constructing East German literature 1945-1959
    Author: Brockmann, Stephen
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester

    Umfang und Inhalt: "Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on that country than ever. This is true also in literary studies, but especially in English-language literary... more

     

    Umfang und Inhalt: "Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on that country than ever. This is true also in literary studies, but especially in English-language literary scholarship there has been a strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been dismissed or ignored, as the discontinuities between the early and late GDR have been emphasized over the considerable continuities. This book seeks to redress that state of affairs, examining the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s."--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Undetermined
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781571139535; 1571139532
    Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
    Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
    Other subjects: (lcsh)German literature--Germany (East)--History and criticism.; (fast)German literature.; (gnd)Literatur; (sao)Tysk litteratur--historia.; (fast)Germany (East); (gnd)Deutschland--DDR; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: xi, 368 pages, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.. - Introduction: reconstructing East German literature -- Part One: The absence of state (1945): In the zone, 1945 -- Part Two: Constructing the state (1949): Brecht and the battle of the spirits, 1949 -- German culture's will to power, 1949-50 -- Fascinating fascists, 1949-50 -- Part Three: Contesting the state (1953): Typical heroes, 1951-53 -- The danger of optimism, 1953 -- Part Four: The state cracks down (1956) -- The worst of times, 1956-58 -- Literature for adults, 1956-59
  10. Parzival še išče gral?
    arhetipski motivi v Parzivalu Wolframa von Eschenbacha in njihova recepcija v novejši nemški književnosti ter v sodobni filmski produkciji
    Author: Virk, Jani
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, Ljubljana

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  11. Eardrums
    literary modernism as sonic warfare
    Author: Whitney, Tyler
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    Zusammenfassung: "In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "In this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries left indelible traces on the literature that defined the period. Both formally and thematically, the modernist aesthetics of Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Detlev von Liliencron, and Peter Altenberg drew on this blurring of martial and civilian soundscapes in traumatic and performative repetitions of war. At the same time, Richard Huelsenbeck assaulted audiences in Zurich with his "sound poems," which combined references to World War I, colonialism, and violent encounters in urban spaces with nonsensical utterances and linguistic detritus--all accompanied by the relentless beating of a drum on the stage of the Cabaret Voltaire. "Eardrums" is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is not only a new way of understanding the sonic impulses behind key literary texts from the period. It also outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise, which will be of interest to scholars across literary studies, media theory, sound studies, and the history of science"--Provided by publisher.

     
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  12. The virginal mother in German culture
    from Sophie von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis
    Author: Nossett, Lauren
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    Zusammenfassung: "The Virginal Mother in German Culture" presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "The Virginal Mother in German Culture" presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the complex social ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother. At the same time, she shows that the literary depictions of virginal mothers correspond to vilified biological mother figures, which point to a perceived threat in the long nineteenth century of the mother's procreative power. Examining the virginal mother in the first novel by a German woman (Sophie von La Roche), canonical texts by Goethe, nineteenth-century popular fiction, autobiographical works, and Thea von Harbou's novel "Metropolis" and Fritz Lang's film by the same name, this book highlights the virginal mother at pivotal moments in German history and cultural development: the entrance of women into the literary market, the Goethezeit, the foundation of the German Empire, and the volatile Weimar Republic. The Virginal Mother in German Culture will be of interest to students and scholars of German literature, history, cultural and social studies, and women's studies--Provided by publisher.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780810139305; 0810139308; 9780810139299; 0810139294
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Jungfräulichkeit <Motiv>; Mutter <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (lcsh)German literature--History and criticism.; (lcsh)Motherhood in literature.; (lcsh)Virginity in literature.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)Motherhood in literature.; (fast)Virginity in literature.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: vii, 232 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: The emergence of the virginal mother in the eighteenth century -- The creation of the virginal mother: Sophie von La Roche's The history of Lady Sophia Sternheim -- The ideal virgin and the failed mother: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship, and Faust I -- The popular virginal mother: E. Marlitt's The old maid's secret and The second wife -- The "real" virginal mother: caregiving and motherhood in the autobiographies of Hedwig Dohm, Adelheid Popp, and Ottilie Baader -- The virginal mother of orphans and the vamp anti-mother: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- Conclusion: The decline of the virginal mother and the rise of the biological mother under the Third Reich.
  13. Pretexts for writing
    German romantic prefaces, literature, and philosophy
    Author: Williams, Seán M.
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

    Zusammenfassung: "Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European-and, above all, German-Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise"--(Provided by publisher.) Zusammenfassung: "In this incisive, original book, S. Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era--Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel--in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  14. The myth of abstraction
    the hidden origins of abstract art in German literature
    Author: Meyertholen, Andrea
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781640141049; 1640141049
    Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
    Subjects: Abstrakte Kunst <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Kleist, Heinrich von (1777-1811): Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832); Keller, Gottfried (1819-1890): Der grüne Heinrich; (fast)1800-1899; (lcsh)Art, Abstract, in literature.; (lcsh)German literature--19th century--History and criticism.; (fast)Art, Abstract, in literature.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: xiv, 295 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Introduction : the many origins of abstract art -- Apocalypse now : Heinrich Von Kleist's sublime de-framing of Caspar David Friedrich's Der Mönch Am Meer (1810) -- The Kleistian sublime is now : Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman -- The clouding of perception : seeing the (un)real potential for abstraction in the poetry and science of Goethe's clouds (1821) -- In the service of clouds or optical illusion? : Romanticism, pointillism, and impressionism -- Driven to distraction and from abstraction : the birth and death of abstract art in Gottfried Keller's Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80) -- Inside the mind and outside the margins : the unruly lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly -- Epilogue : Laocoön and his sisters : the future of literature and art.
  15. Beyond posthumanism
    the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities
    Author: Mathäs, Alexander
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities-both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities-both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  16. György Lukács y la literatura alemana
    Author: Vedda, Miguel
    Published: [2005]
    Publisher:  Herramienta ediciones, Buenos Aires ; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Department de Letras, Facultad de Filosofiá y Letras

  17. Forms of life
    aesthetics and biopolitics in German culture
    Author: Gailus, Andreas
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    Zusammenfassung: "Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"(Provided by publisher.) more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  18. Jena 1800
    the republic of free spirits
    Author: Neumann, Peter
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"--(Provided by publisher.) Zusammenfassung: "Around the turn of the nineteenth... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"--(Provided by publisher.) Zusammenfassung: "Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village of just four thousand residents. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors--the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis--resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn't just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality." -- inside front jacket flap.

     
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  19. Tajemství úspechu
    německojazyčná knižnice Album nakladatele Ignáce Leopolda Kobra v širších literárních souvislostech
    Author: Urválková, Zuzana
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Host, Brno

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  20. Resounding the sublime
    music in English and German literature and aesthetic theory, 1670-1850
    Author: Stanyon, Miranda
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Zusammenfassung: "Focusing on English and German texts and the intricate relationships between them, this book seeks to reread-or, perhaps better, re-sound-sublimity through the lens of music, from the sublime's rise to prominence in the later... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Focusing on English and German texts and the intricate relationships between them, this book seeks to reread-or, perhaps better, re-sound-sublimity through the lens of music, from the sublime's rise to prominence in the later seventeenth century, through the upheavals associated with Kant in the late eighteenth century and their reverberations in the nineteenth century. Closely reading a series of canonical and little-known literary and critical texts in dialogue with musical cultures, the book offers new perspectives on the sublime as a transdisciplinary, transmedial, and transcultural phenomenon. In doing so, it argues for the importance of sonic models to the sublime; it traces harmonious, discordant, and resolutely silent varieties of sublimity; and it suggests resonances between past sublimes and current aesthetics and ethics"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  21. Minority discourses in Germany since 1990
    Author: Gezen, Ela
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Berghahn, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "While German unification promised a new historical beginning, it also stirred discussions about contemporary Germany's Nazi past and ideas of citizenship and belonging in a changing Europe. Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "While German unification promised a new historical beginning, it also stirred discussions about contemporary Germany's Nazi past and ideas of citizenship and belonging in a changing Europe. Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990 explores the intersections and divergences between Black German, Turkish German, and German Jewish experiences, with reflections on the evolving academic paradigms with which these are studied. Informed by comparative approaches, the volume investigates social and aesthetic interventions into contemporary German public and political discourse on memory, racism, citizenship, immigration, and history"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  22. Attention and distraction in modern German literature, thought, and culture
    Author: Duttlinger, Carolin
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed... more

     

    Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed opposite, distraction, as it unfolds from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its primary focus is on twentieth-century Germany and Austria, where matters of (in)attention gained a unique urgency during a period of social change and political crisis. 00Building on Enlightenment practices of self-observation, nineteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of experimental psychology, a discipline which sought to measure and potentially enhance human attention. This approach was also adopted outside the psychological laboratory-for instance in the First World War, when psychological testing was used to select soldiers for particular strategic positions. After the war these techniques filtered through into everyday life. Weimar Germany was unique in the western world in rolling out the methods of 'psychotechnics' across civilian society-in fields such as work and education, advertising and mass entertainment. This state-sponsored programme aimed to reshape people's minds and behaviour in order to build a more efficient, streamlined society.00But as this study shows, this initiative also had profound repercussions in the fields of thought, literature, and culture. New readings of leading writers and intellectuals of the period-Kafka, Musil, Kracauer, Benjamin, and Adorno-are interspersed with broader cultural-historical chapters dedicated to the history of psychology and psychiatry, to Weimar self-help literature, portrait photography, and musical culture.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780192856302; 0192856308
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Aufmerksamkeit <Motiv>; Ablenkung <Motiv>; Aufmerksamkeit; Psychologie; Rezeption; Geistesleben
    Other subjects: (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History and criticism.; (lcsh)Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.; (lcsh)Attention in literature.; (lcsh)Distraction (Psychology); (lcsh)Social psychology--Germany--History.; (fast)Attention in literature.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)Social conditions.; (fast)Social psychology.; (lcsh)Germany--Social conditions--20th century.; (fast)Germany.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.; (fast)History.
    Scope: xvii, 437 pages, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    1. Virtue, Reflex, Pathology: Attention from the Enlightenment to the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. Modernity: Fragmentation and Resistance -- 3. Franz Kafka: Diversion, Vigilance, Paranoia -- 4. Psychotechnics: Training the Mind -- 5. Threshold States: Robert Musil -- 6. The Art of Concentration: Weimar Self-Help Literature -- 7. Stillness: Weimar Photography -- 8. Presence of Mind: Walter Benjamin -- 9. Musical Listening between Immersion and Detachment -- 10. Spellbound: Theodor W. Adorno on Music and Style -- 11. Celan, Sebald, Hoppe: Networks of Attention.
  23. Grotesque visions
    the science of Berlin Dada
    Author: Haakenson, Thomas O.
    Published: ©2021; [2021]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals went to present their research in a seemingly unambiguous way, this volume shows how Friedländer/Mynona, Brugman, Höch, and other Berlin-based artists used the artistic grotesque to criticize, satirize, and subvert a variety of forms of supposed scientific objectivity. The volume concludes by examining the exhibition Grotesk!: 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit/Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Arts, 1870-1940. In contrast to the ahistorical and amorphous concept informing the exhibition, Thomas O. Haakenson reveals a unique deployment of the artistic grotesque that targeted specific established and emerging scientific discourses at the turn of the last fin-de-siècle"--(Provided by publisher.)

     
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  24. Literary studies and the pursuits of reading
    Contributor: Downing, Eric (Herausgeber); Hess, Jonathan M. (Mitwirkender); Benson, Richard V. (Mitwirkender)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, NY

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Downing, Eric (Herausgeber); Hess, Jonathan M. (Mitwirkender); Benson, Richard V. (Mitwirkender)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781571134318; 157113431X
    Other identifier:
    40021501213
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
    Subjects: Lesen; Geschichte
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Books and reading--Germany--History.; (lcsh)Literature and society--Germany--History.; (lcsh)German literature--History and criticism.; (fast)Books and reading.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)Literature and society.; (fast)Germany.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.; (fast)History.
    Scope: VI, 298 S., Ill., 24 cm
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  25. Rimozione e memoria ritrovata
    la letteratura tedesca del Novecento tra esilio e migrazioni
    Contributor: Dolei, Giuseppe (Herausgeber); Cottone, Margherita (Mitwirkender); Perrone Capano, Lucia (Mitwirkender)
    Published: maggio 2013
    Publisher:  Artemide, Roma

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Dolei, Giuseppe (Herausgeber); Cottone, Margherita (Mitwirkender); Perrone Capano, Lucia (Mitwirkender)
    Language: Italian; German
    Media type: Conference proceedings
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788875751746; 8875751749
    Corporations / Congresses: Dalla rimozione alla memoria ritrovata. La letteratura tedesca tra esilio e migrazioni (2012, Catania)
    Series: Proteo ; 69
    Subjects: Deutsch; Exilliteratur; Migrantenliteratur
    Other subjects: (fast)1900 - 1999; (lcsh)German literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism--Congresses.; (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.; (lcsh)Exiles' writings, German--History and criticism--Congresses.; (fast)Exiles' writings, German.; (fast)German literature.; (fast)German literature--Foreign countries.; (fast)Conference proceedings.; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Scope: 279 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm