Ecologies of Writing : Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions of Textual Production in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Büttner, Urs, editor.

Haubenreich, Jacob, editor.

Series:

New Directions in German Studies.

New Directions in German Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--History--20th century.

Authorship.

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

German literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and environmental bases of writing and its craft.

Contents:

Cover

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Figures

Introduction Ecologies of Writing: An Expanded Perspective on Textual Creation1

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part One Materialities

I The Field of Writing: The Ambulatory Art of Noticing Third Nature in Sebald and Kinsky

WALKING: FROM AN OBJECT OF WRITING TO AN ECOLOGY OF WRITING

HUMAN AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN PHYSIOLOGIES OF WRITING: W. G. SEBALD'S DIE RINGE DES SATURN

ECOLOGIES OF GHOSTWRITING

FIELDS OF IMBRICATION: ESTHER KINSKY'S AM FLUSS

FROM ECOLOGIES OF WRITING TO ECOLOGIES OF LITERACY

II Street Writing and Contemporary German Streetscapes

THING WRITING AND NON-ALPHABETIC MESSAGING

STREET WRITING AS URBAN FOLKLORE

STREET WRITING AND/IN SOCIAL MEDIA ECOSYSTEMS

TEXTSCAPES AND POSTGRAFFITI FUTURES

CONCLUSION

Part Two Mediality and Technical Devices

III Lines of Force: Writing Theory and the Energetic Scripts of Modernism1

ENERGY AND MEDIA-A MODERN PARAGONE

FROM PHONOGRAPHIC TO SCRIPTOGRAPHIC ENERGY

"THE LINE IS A FORCE" (VAN DE VELDE, KLAGES, KANDINSKY)

"LIBERATED ENERGY" OF THE BOOK (EL LISSITZKY)

ENERGY TRANSMISSIONS (ILYA KABAKOV)

ENTANGLED LINES OF FORCE

IV An Updated Superscript: Paradoxes of Writing Amidst Generative AI

FLUSSER'S FUTURE

WEB OF FRICTIONLESS WORDS

WRITING MACHINES

FUTURE WRITERS

Part Three Mind and Body

V "This Conflict between the Soul's Inclination and the Body's Capabilities": Writing Hygiene in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

WRITING HYGIENE

WRITER'S BLOCK

SENSUAL EXCESS

DREAMING INSTEAD OF WRITING

VI Immersion and Its Discontents: Kafka's Ecology of Attention

GREAT NOISE: WRITING IN THE MIDST OF DISTRACTION

"DAS URTEIL": ALONE WITH OTHERS.

IN THE CELLAR: THE MADNESS OF SOLITUDE

FOREST RETREATS: MAHLER'S COMPOSING HUT

"ATEMLOS KAM ICH AN . . .": BEYOND IMMERSION

Part Four Social Conditions

VII In the Machine Room: Writing between Author and Editor, 1900-2000

NORM AND SUBVERSION: CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN AND ROBERT WALSER

ANTICIPATED AFTERLIFE: FRITZ A. HÜNICH AND RAINER MARIA RILKE

STRIVING FOR COHERENCE: ELISABETH BORCHERS AND PETER HANDKE

AVANT-GARDE AND READABILITY: CHRISTIAN DÖRING AND MARCEL BEYER

VIII Writing as Work: Toward a Theory of Literary Production

BEING AN AUTHOR

WRITING AS SOCIAL PRAXIS

ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERARY WORK

LITERATURE AS A FIELD OF PRODUCTION

Contributors

Index

Volumes in the series:.

ISBN:

9798765124482

9798765124499

9798765124475

OCLC:

1520506751