Sonja Boos was Associate Professor of German at the University of Oregon, USA. Her book Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar German appeared in Cornell University Press’ Signale series (2013). Recent publications centered on home movies at the intersection of feminist video art, cinematic materialism and domestic memory practices.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura.- 3. Fiction’s Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs.- 4. A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer’s The Poor Musician.- 5. Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet.- 6. Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff’s Syndrome in Theodor Fontane’s On Tangled Paths.- 7. Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.- 8. Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka’s Prose.

Sonja Boos was Associate Professor of German at the University of Oregon, USA. Her book Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar German appeared in Cornell University Press’ Signale series (2013). Recent publications centered on home movies at the intersection of feminist video art, cinematic materialism and domestic memory practices.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura.- 3. Fiction’s Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs.- 4. A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer’s The Poor Musician.- 5. Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet.- 6. Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff’s Syndrome in Theodor Fontane’s On Tangled Paths.- 7. Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.- 8. Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka’s Prose.