Critical time in modern German literature and culture / edited by Dirk Göttsche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Göttsche, Dirk, 1955- editor.

Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Series:

Studies in modern German and Austrian literature ; v. 3.

Studies in modern German and Austrian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Time in literature.

Time--Social aspects--Germany--History.

Time.

Time--Social aspects.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 321 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

"The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck in 1800 as the temporalisation ('Verzeitlichung') of all areas of human knowledge and experience, the concept of critical time continues to intrigue researchers across the arts and humanities. This volume combines theoretical and critical approaches to temporality with case studies on the engagement with the modern sense of time in German literature, visual art and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributions explore key areas in the cultural history of time: time in art and aesthetic theory, the intellectual history of time, the relationship of time and space in literature and visual art, the politics of time and memory, and the poetics of time. Essays question the focus on acceleration in recent critical discourse by also revealing the contrapuntal fascination with slowness and ecstatic moments, notions of polyphonous time and simultaneity, the dialectic of time and space, and complex aesthetic temporalities breaking with modern time-regimes."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Time in Art and Critical Theory 15

The Philosophy of Time and the Implications from Renaissance Art / Gabriele Neher Neher, Gabriele, Jonathan Tallant Tallant, Jonathan 27

Acceleration and Retardation: Temporality, Modernist Poetics and Modernity in the Work of Hans Blumenberg and Viktor Shklovslcy / Jerome Carroll Carroll, Jerome 47

Part II The Intellectual History of Time 67

"The Grand Poem of our Time": Carlyle, Zeitgeist and his History of the French Revolution / Maike Oergel Oergel, Maike 69

Revolution, History and Time in Benjamin and Sloterdijk / Brian Elliott Elliott, Brian 101

Part III The Temporality of Literary Genres 127

Formbewusstsein als Zeitbewusstsein. Die Anfänge moderner Zeitpoetik im 18. Jahrhundert / Dirk Oschmann Oschmann, Dirk 129

The "inexorable law of perpetual mutation": Motherwell and Goethe on the Tradition of the Ballad / Eva Axer Axer, Eva 145

Part IV Chronotopes: Time and Space 163

The Temporality of Hospitality / Ralf Simon Simon, Ralf 165

"Of Time and the City": Contemporary Visual Culture and the Times of Berlin / Simon Ward Ward, Simon 185

Part V Time and the Politics of Memory 207

Eigenlogische und historische Zeit in den transmedialen Collagen Herta Müllers. Memoria nach 1989 / Iulia-Karin Patrut Patrut, Iulia-Karin 209

On Re-describing History in Christoph Ransmayr's Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis and Lilian Faschinger's Stadt der Verlierer / Ulrich Bach Bach, Ulrich 233

Part VI The Poetics of Time in Contemporary German Literature 247

Zeitpoetik in Kleiner Prosa der Gegenwart / Dirk Göttsche Göttsche, Dirk 249

The Ethics of Time: Stasis and Dilation in Thomas Lehr's and Svend Age Madsen's Days with Diam / Sabine Zubarik Zubarik, Sabine 271

Das Ende der Zeit. Die Darstellung der Apokalypse in Thomas Glavinics Die Arbeit der Nacht und Cormac McCarthys The Road / Sascha Seiler Seiler, Sascha 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

ISBN:

9783034319423

3034319428

OCLC:

922697768

Publisher Number:

99968026776