Since 1963 the series Patristische Texte und Studien has been publishing research findings coordinated by the Patristics Commission, which today is a joint venture of all the German Academies. The ...series is presenting editions, commentaries and monographs on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers.
Der Schwerpunkt des Kommentars zu Philipp von Zesens Coelum astronomico- poeticum (1662) liegt auf dem Nachweis der über 3000 Zitate und Verweise. Dabei werden nicht nur die Stellen dokumentiert, auf ...die der Text verweist, sondern auch die Quellen, aus denen Zesen jeweils schöpft. Auf diese Weise entsteht ein exemplarisches Bild der kompilatorischen Arbeitstechnik, die charakteristisch für einen großen Teil der gelehrten Literatur jener Zeit ist.
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical ...and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.
In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, ...displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night-and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past? Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience,Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.
Linked to propaganda and the dissemination of informations about colonies, German colonial literature played a very active part in the media campaign for German colonization. The colonial discourse ...developed by this literature incited the Germans to immigrate to the colony. Therefore, the colonial space became for colonial writers the object of the construction of a diversified knowledge allowing the reading of the relationship of the Self to the Other. This can be verified by the German colonial writer Alfred Mansfeld. From 1904 to 1907, he was assigned as regional manager of the German colonial administration in Cameroon. On the basis of a sample of ethnographic data, he collected many observations on the lives of the colonized and documented them in detail in his travel texts. From his travel writing Urwald-Dokumente: vier Jahre unter den Crossflussnegern Kamerun (1908), we propose, in this contribution, to show how the narrator-character construct diverse knowledge’s about Cameroon. At the end of our analyzes, we will come to the conclusion that the colonial novel, as exotic literary genre, often worked by the concepts of ethnocentrism, cultural hegemony and overhanging gaze, seems to be a vector of interculturality in a colonial situation.
Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship ...on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events.
The fact that the poet from Chernivtsi, Immanuel Weissglas, reworked, revised and resumed many of his poems in later volumes became an object of study relatively late, also due to his placement in ...the “shadow” of Paul Celan. His three volumes, Kariera am Bug, the unpublished volume Gottes Mühlen in Berlin and Nobiskrug, however, contain multiple examples of these variations of the original works, the poems being modified, quoted or changed to different degrees. A valuable starting point for studies on this topic is represented by Barbara Wiedemanns list of these equivalents and their type. This article aims to analyze the similarities and overlaps between the first and last volume of Weissglas, while trying to capture the character of these two volumes, possible motivations of Weissglas to maintain his work in a continuous process of transformation, and finding an answer to the question: What has the poem become in its new form?
The fact that the poet from Chernivtsi, Immanuel Weissglas, reworked, revised and resumed many of his poems in later volumes became an object of study relatively late, also due to his placement in ...the “shadow” of Paul Celan. His three volumes, Kariera am Bug, the unpublished volume Gottes Mühlen in Berlin and Nobiskrug, however, contain multiple examples of these variations of the original works, the poems being modified, quoted or changed to different degrees. A valuable starting point for studies on this topic is represented by Barbara Wiedemanns list of these equivalents and their type. This article aims to analyze the similarities and overlaps between the first and last volume of Weissglas, while trying to capture the character of these two volumes, possible motivations of Weissglas to maintain his work in a continuous process of transformation, and finding an answer to the question: What has the poem become in its new form?
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