Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 – 2015

Between Acceleration and Slowness

AvAnne Fuchs,Jonathan Long

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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Beskrivning

Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 – 2015 is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-21
Mått:140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Antal sidor:283
Upplaga:15001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137411860

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Anne Fuchs is Professor of German at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on German cultural memory since 1945, modernist literature, contemporary German literature and German-Jewish literature. Recent books include After the Dresden Bombing: Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present (2012) and Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse: The Politics of Memory (2008; 2010).J. J. Long is Professor of German and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. He has published extensively on twentieth-century literature, particularly on writing and photography. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (2001) and W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity (2007). His current research focuses on photography in the Weimar Republic.

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Introduction: Faulty Clocks, Human Errors and the Management of Time in Modernity and Late Modernity; Anne Fuchs and J. J. LongPART I1. Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration, Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse; Anne Fuchs2. How Long does the Present Last? Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon; Aleida Assmann3. Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports; Kathleen James-ChakrabortyPART II4. Epistemology, Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900; Dirk Göttsche5. Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka's Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912; Elizabeth Boa6. Icons of Speed – Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture; Matthias Uecker7. Snapshot, Composite, Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic; J. J. Long8. Syncope, Pause, Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration; Carolin DuttlingerPART III9. 'Good Work': Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold's Barbara; Andrew J. Webber10. Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the 'Information Rapids' with Angela Krauß; Gillian Pye11. The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature; Mary CosgroveBibliographyIndex