Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles 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 ... -
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
(Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2013) -
The Discovery of Slowness in Music
(Fordham University Press, 2015) -
"Du, der ichs nicht sage...": Lyrisches und sachliches Sagen in Rilkes Gedichten 1906-1911
(Wallstein Verlag, 2012) -
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
(University of Chicago Press, 2014) -
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) -
Ineluctable Ulysses: a glossarium
(Information as Material, 2013) -
Instruments of Music Theory
(2016)This article explores musical instruments as a source for the historical study of music theory. The figure of Pythagoras, and his alleged penchant for the monochord, offers a way into this exploration of the theory-bearing ...