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Myths of a Near Past: Envisioning Finance Capitalism anno 2007 [PDF]
, 2009 This paper seeks to extend earlier work on particular features and manifestations of capitalism (De Cock et al., 2001). Our 2001 Myths of a Near Future paper offered ephemera readers a large depository of images concerning the New Economy.
De Cock, CJL, Fitchett, J, Volkmann, C
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DAS HANDWERK DES ERZÄHLENS. POETOLOGISCHE ENTWÜRFE IN UWE TIMMS ALLE MEINE GEISTER
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 259-280, April 2026.Abstract Uwe Timm's autobiographical story Alle meine Geister, published in 2023, describes how Timm became an author. The story unfolds through explicit and implicit reflections on the nature and art of oral and written storytelling, against the backdrop of the author's apprenticeship and self‐employment as a furrier in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Christoph Seifener
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Sociolinguistics going ‘wild’: The construction of auratic fields
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 23, Issue 5, Page 505-520, November 2019., 2019 Abstract This paper sets out to focus the “linguistic construction of publics” (Gal & Woolard, 2014 [2001]: 1) in a sense of the word that is often excluded from sociolinguistic discussion of linguistic action in the public sphere: it discusses how the public is constructed as an indexical (‘auratic’) arena, and a field for positioning, in ...
Jürgen Spitzmüller
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Jumpstarting the future with Fredric Jameson: Reflections on capitalism, science fiction and Utopia [PDF]
, 2009 This paper turns around the key concern that it has become almost impossible to imagine a form of the future that is neither a prolongation of what already exists nor its apocalyptic demise.
De Cock, CJL
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German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 544-566, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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De Verfall e Verkümmerung a Katastrophe: a modernidade em Walter Benjamin
Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 2022 O objetivo desse artigo é retomar uma série de conceitos-chave e noções de Walter Benjamin – na edição alemã de seus escritos – a partir da hipótese de que, através de seu preceito de den Pessimismus organisieren, há uma passagem do enfoque da ...
André Macedo
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Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris [PDF]
, 2016 The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19th ...
Wrigley, Richard
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DIE ARBEIT DES ÜBERSETZENS: RILKE UND MICHELANGELO („SE ’L MIE ROZZO MARTELLO‘‘)
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 194-216, April 2025.ABSTRACT This essay examines Rainer Maria Rilke's reception of the sculptor and poet Michelangelo in the context of interest in the Renaissance around 1900, focusing first on the Stundenbuch, the Florenzer Tagebuch and the story ʻVon einem, der die Steine belauschtʼ (from the prose collection: Geschichten vom lieben Gott).
Astrid Dröse, Jörg Robert
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La forma come esperimento o come destino [PDF]
, 2011 This essay focuses on the complex relationship between Walter Benjamin and Goethe’s morphological doctrines as a key way into defining the concept of the dialectical image.
Ottaviani, Alessandro
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