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Language & Linguistics
Geoffrey Russom
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
(2022)
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Language & Linguistics
Wesley Lim
Summary: This article analyzes the the staging, costuming, make-up, and gestural semiotics of two photographs of German Expressionist dancers, delving into the affordances of still photography as a medium for their movement-based art form. It discusses how Kreutzberg and Georgi presented a distinctive brand of modernist movement aesthetics that both Orientalized and queered the dancing body, while also highlighting the exploitation of non-white cultures and their complicity in the instrumentalization of their dance aesthetics by the Nazi regime.
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Gottskalk Jensson
Summary: This study introduces the history and appraisal of Pingeyrar Abbey, the earliest monastic house in Iceland, providing information on the location and interiors of the monastery church, as well as the literary production and manuscripts of the abbey.
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Anne Fuchs
Summary: This article discusses the literary engagement with chronic crises as the prevailing condition of the early twenty-first century. Chronic crisis narration experiments with anthropologically inflected modes of narration to articulate the subjective and social experience of precarity, exhaustion, and the depletion of resources. The genre explores the idea of the good-enough life as a viable alternative to the middle-class expectation of the good life.
SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Daniel Ehrmann
Summary: This paper discusses the importance of treating journals as an independent research topic and proposes a new way of thinking about them as relational objects that influence and are influenced by texts. It suggests considering journals and texts as a whole.
INTERNATIONALES ARCHIV FUR SOZIALGESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR
(2022)
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Language & Linguistics
Michael Schulte
Summary: This study presents a new typology of runic formulas in ancient runic inscriptions. It identifies the one-word formulas, such as alu or laukaR, as the basic building blocks of runic formulaicity, which can be extended in various ways. The typology includes various types of formulas, such as monolexemes, reduplication formulas, twin formulas, alliterative non-twin formulas, tandem formulas, and disguised/distorted formulas. The classification is based on linguistic and rhythmic-metrical principles, including Behaghel's Fourth Law.
BEITRAGE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE UND LITERATUR
(2023)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Ritchie Robertson
Summary: Faust, a cosmic drama of epic qualities, explores the problem of justifying divine goodness. The deaths of Philemon and Baucis, as well as Faust's plan for a free society, have been criticized. However, some argue that Faust is modeled after Enlightenment despots who pursued land reclamation for the betterment of their subjects. Faust's ascent to heaven does not mean exoneration, but symbolizes a process of purification.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENGLISH GOETHE SOCIETY
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Angelika Kemper
Summary: This contribution discusses mnemonic teaching at the University of Erfurt, which emerged as part of the early humanist approach to rhetoric. Focusing on Jacobus Publicius, who temporarily taught and developed a memory doctrine in Erfurt, this study provides valuable insights into mnemonic teaching practices that are otherwise difficult to access for researchers, based on a student's transcript.
DAPHNIS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MITTLERE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR
(2022)
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Language & Linguistics
Tim Sommer
Summary: This article explores the theme of time in "The Magic Mountain" from a different perspective. It traces the various discourses on time that are reflected both in the content and narrative of the novel, and examines how the poetics of the novel have influenced the literary theory of the early Federal Republic. The article argues that "The Magic Mountain" should be read as a time novel in a broader theoretical-historical sense.
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Kyle Frackman, Ervin Malakaj
Summary: This passage discusses the importance of time in queer and cinema studies and how time can be used as an analytic category to explore queer German cinema.
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Pierre-Louis Patoine
Summary: This article explores the role of empathy in literary reading by examining its origins in the theories of Einfuhlung and revisiting these theories based on recent neuropsychological studies. Using Franz Kafka's novel "The Metamorphosis" as a case study, the article demonstrates how literature can create a space of empathic indetermination by employing fantastic cognition.
SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Javier Samper Vendrell
Summary: This article examines a different perspective of "Madchen in Uniform", suggesting that the film illustrates the queerness of adolescence and society's efforts to repress it. By engaging with Charlotte Buhler's developmental theories, the author presents a new interpretation of the movie that challenges traditional heterosexist norms.
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Dorothea Walzer
Summary: Christoph Martin Wieland's late work explores the function of prejudice in popular enlightenment and the emerging phenomenon of public opinion, offering an insightful interpretation of the role of enlightenment literature in modern critique of ideology.
INTERNATIONALES ARCHIV FUR SOZIALGESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Lucie Dolezalova
Summary: This study presents a previously overlooked treatise on the art of memory, which is based on an anonymous treatise written in Bologna in 1425. The copy, made in 1461 by Johannes de Fredelant, is part of a specific collection focused on memory.
DAPHNIS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MITTLERE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Luis Merino Jerez
Summary: The Ars Memorativa by Publicius went through a lengthy process of transmission, with numerous manuscripts and incunabula leading to its publication in 1485 by Ratdolt. The addition 28805 manuscript from the British Library is significant in the history of Publicius's text as it represents a distinct version from the printed texts and includes illustrations that connect it to other manuscripts.
DAPHNIS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MITTLERE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR
(2022)
Article
Literature, British Isles
Martin Humpal
DISSEMINATING SHAKESPEARE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Annelis Kuhlmann
DISSEMINATING SHAKESPEARE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: Shifting Centres and Peripheries in the Nineteenth Century
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Peter Eagles
Summary: This essay discusses the treatment of theology in Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus. It proposes theology as a meeting point of humanism and fanaticism in German cultural history. The essay also examines the representatives of humanism in the novel and the sources of theological concepts.
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
(2022)
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Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian
Dirk Goettsche
Summary: British author and Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels Paradise (1994) and Afterlives (2020) explore the representation of German colonialism in East Africa and its effects on Swahili society and culture, as well as the memory and postmemory of German colonialism. This study examines Gurnah's work from an Anglo-German comparative perspective, analyzing its contribution to postcolonial memory discourses in contemporary German literature.
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
(2023)
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Language & Linguistics
Mimi Ensley
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
(2022)
