German Literature and Culture of all periods
Maciej Junkiert deposited Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThis article describes how the Polish intellectuals G.E. Groddeck (1763–1825) and Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) referenced and analysed events connected with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It aims to show how treatments of ancient Athens changed after 1795, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to be an independent count…[Read more]
Paul Michael Kurtz deposited The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoPhilology haunts the humanities, through both its defendants and its detractors. This article examines the construction of philology as the premier science of the long nineteenth century in Europe. It aims to bring the history of philology up to date by taking it seriously as a science and giving it the kind of treatment that has dominated the…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Nowi Grecy. Historyzm polskich romantyków wobec narodzin Altertumswissenschaft in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoThe purpose of this book is to analyse the role which the development of the German Altertumswissenschaft at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries had (in combination with the English-French intellectual base) on the birth of the Romantic reception of the ancient traditions in Poland.
Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 8 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
Marco Heiles deposited Unterseeboot in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoMarco Heiles, Unterseeboot, in: Peter Glasner, Sebastian Winkelsträter und Birgit Zacke (Hg.), Abecedarium. Erzählte Dinge im Mittelalter, Berlin 2019, S. 244–254.
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Marco Heiles deposited Entries in Manuscript Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Donaueschingen A III 19 in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThis graphic provides an overview of the different hand which made entries in the Codex Donaueschingen A III 19 of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe.
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Introduction to Marx & Critical Theory | Spring 2020 in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis is the syllabus for an introductory course on Marx and critical theory that I taught at Binghamton University in the spring semester, 2020. It revises and expands an earlier iteration of the course that I had taught in spring, 2018, also at Binghamton University.
Jonas Richter deposited Drahndl, Glückszirkel, Tourniquet, Zeiger-Roulette: Glücksspiele mit Drehnadel in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoZusammenfassung
In diesem Beitrag beschreibe ich einen Typus von Glücksspielen, der über mehrere Jahrhunderte in Mittel- und Westeuropa verbreitet war. Meines Wissens gibt es weder für das Spielgerät noch für das damit gespielte Glücksspiel eine einheitliche Bezeichnung. Nach einer einleitenden Beschreibung (1) und einem Vergleich mit ähnli…[Read more]
Manfred Engel deposited Writing the Dream / Écrire le rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017 (Cultural Dream Studies; 1) — Contents and Preface in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoWriting a factual or fictional dream is a difficult task as its ›otherness‹ will challenge all of our accustomed modes of narration. So the existence of established cultural and textual patterns is a welcome help. This collection of essays describes these patterns, their historical and individual modifications and their relation to the dre…[Read more]
James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoAnnouncing a reading group on the limits of the novel
June 6 – August 29
I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]
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Manfred Engel deposited Theorizing the Dream / Savoir et théories du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2018 (Cultural Dream Studies; 2) — Contents and Preface in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoAn important part of age-old human attempts to cope with the otherness of the dream is the so-called ›dream-discourse‹, which tries to explain the origin of dreams, their bizarre appearance, their functions, and the methods for detecting the information which they may contain. This collection of essays will reconstruct dream-discourses from man…[Read more]
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Manfred Engel deposited Historizing the Dream / Le rêve du point de vue historique. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2019 (Cultural Dream Studies; 3) — Contents and Preface in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThe essays in this volume trace the development of dream cultures through time both in synchronic and diachronic case studies. The scope of the contributions ranges geographically from New Zealand and China, over India, Mesopotamia, and Africa, to diverse European countries, and historically from Antiquity to the present. The volume covers various…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Ritualmagische Wahrsagerei in der Handschrift 3227a des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoRitual-magical divination in manuscript Hs. 3227a of the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
Jonathan Basile deposited Kant’s Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoIn Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited HWGL-Neuerscheinungen 2019 in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoListe der Neuerscheinungen zur deutschsprachigen historischen Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur 2019.
Helga Müllneritsch deposited The Chameleon in the Kitchen: The Plural Identities of the Manuscript ‘Cookery Book’ in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoBegbrook MS, AC1420; Mathias Zelena: Cod. Ser. n. 12174 (Die Kunst zu kochen I) and Cod. Ser. n. 12175 (Die Kunst zu kochen II); Schoolboy’s Aids to Arithmetic; MS 136 (OÖLB); MS 119 (OÖLB); MS 1963 (UBG)
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Marco Heiles deposited Ein Einband des 15. Jahrhunderts mit Vexierschloss. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 399 in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoPresentation of a 15th century book-binding with a trick-lock from Munich.
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Marco Heiles deposited Einführung in die Gender Studies für Altgermanisten. Semesterprogramm und bibliographische Hinweise in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoEinführung in die Gender Studies für Altgermanisten. Semesterprogramm und bibliographische Hinweise
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Marco Heiles deposited Bibliomancy in Medieval Western Europe. Definition Problems in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoPresentation on Bibliomancy in Medieval Western Europe. With Bibliography.
Jean Marie Carey deposited bauhaus imaginista frames the Weimar academy’s centennial as a contemporary legacy in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAn article about the bauhaus imaginista international rotation of exhibitions keyed the Bauhaus Centennial.
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