Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Germanic Languages and Literatures"
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“Amerika gibt es nicht” – On the Semiotics of Literary America in the Twentieth Century
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)From Alexis de Tocqueville's arrival in Manhattan and his amazement at the artificial façades of houses on the East River, we can observe a specific semiotic model in depictions of America: America does not exist, which ... -
Before discipline: philology and the horizon of sense in Quignard's Sur le jadis
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Bodleian Library, MS. Germ. e. 22. The Christ Child in the Host
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)This paper presents a miniature from a sixteenth-century prayer book originating from the Strasbourg Dominican nunnery St Nikolaus in Undis it in its historical and devotional context. The study particularly emphasizes the ... -
Bureaucracy and Dissent: East German Subjectivity and Socialist Realism in the Context of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
(2016-09-15)This dissertation analyzes the central role of interior monologue and subjectivity in the GDR’s discourse of Socialist Realism. It argues that these stylistic elements, often associated with modernism, were central to the ... -
The Bureaucracy of Honor. The Habsburg Consular Service and the History of Emotions
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)I use the personnel files of three consuls in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service to consider the ways Habsburg bureaucracy recorded the emotional lives of civil servants. Consuls were expected to interact with Habsburg ... -
Conspiracy, security, and human care in Donnersmarck's Liben der anderen.
(GESIS, 2013)Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's acclaimed film, Das Leben der Anderen (2006), affords a provocative opportunity for investigating the relation between conspiracy and security. Although state-sponsored onspiracies breed ... -
Die Zeit der Musikalischen Monumente
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The Discovery of Slowness in Music
(Fordham University Press, 2015) -
"Du, der ichs nicht sage...": Lyrisches und sachliches Sagen in Rilkes Gedichten 1906-1911
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Editors' Introduction: Adorno, Music, Modernity
(Duke University Press, 2016)“As a temporal art,” Adorno observed, “music is bound to the fact of succession and is hence as irreversible as time itself. By starting it commits itself to carrying on, to becoming something new, to developing. What we ... -
Encounter: The Rothschild Canticles
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Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in Weimar Cinema
(2015-05-13)This dissertation analyzes filmic environments within Weimar cinema and argues for a concept of Heimat in which the landscapes of modernity are embedded into the environments of home. Mountain films such as Der heilige ... -
Extemporalia: music, philology, and Nietzsche's misology
(2012)Nietzsche‘s biographers have generally based his turn to philosophy on an abandonment of academic philology. The philosopher‘s frequent declarations of suspicion toward verbal language—Nietzsche‘s misology—appear, then, ... -
Form Der Inspiration Klopstocks Antikerezeption
(2020)Literaturgeschichtlich ist es unbestritten, dass Klopstocks Werk von der klassizistischen Regelpoetik entschieden abweicht. Hatte der Rationalismus noch durch präzise Vorschriften und Kriterien die Kultivierung des guten ... -
From Beyond the Seas
(New York University Press, 2004) -
The German Middle Ages in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Reception and Transformation
(Maney Publishing, 2014) -
Grünbeins Antike Dispositionen
(Christoph Links Verlag, 2014)