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{"title":"Erin McGlothlin. The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction","authors":"Belinda Kleinhans","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86581136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hester Baer. German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism","authors":"J. Hosek","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78909231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Textual Infection: Syphilis in Grimmelshausen’s Courasche","authors":"Christopher Hutchinson","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarship on seventeenth-century concerns about print has highlighted how writers drew on diseases like syphilis as metaphors to criticize the spread of dangerous ideas through print. This essay argues that, in certain texts, the epidemiological threat of the printed text goes beyond the metaphorical and becomes literal. By examining the way Grimmelshausen presents syphilis in his 1669 novel, Courasche, and outlining how ideas of infection in the work intersect with concerns about printing, circulating, and reading texts, this essay demonstrates how literary portrayals of syphilis can also claim to have real, material effects on their readers.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":"127 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87441155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, editors. Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies","authors":"Nicola Coleman","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81700869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haiko Wandhoff. Vom Finden der Liebe in der Literatur: Die erzählte Poetik des höfischen Romans","authors":"Alexander Sager","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.2.rev001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74131455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erkenntnis und Erleuchtung: Die Metaphern „Spiegel\" und „Licht\" bei David von Augsburg im Blickfeld von historischer Semantik und analogischer Bedeutungsbildung","authors":"R. Wetzel, Robert Gisselbaek","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we look at the metaphors of \"mirror\" and \"light\" in medieval vernacular literature to examine the influence of their semantics on the conceptualization of cognition. We argue that \"mirror\" and \"light\" are traditional means to express and to reflect cognitive processes. Speaking metaphorically is thus intimately related to understanding concepts in general but also allows the shaping as well as the transmission of concepts. In support of our argument, we will, in the second part of this paper, carefully consider David von Augsburg's Spiegel der Tugend (Mirror of Virtue), which blends the metaphors \"mirror\" and \"light\" conceptually.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"48 1","pages":"100 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74362311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embedded Mental States, Literariness, and the Mutual Cross-Disciplinary Benefits of Cognitive-Literary Analysis","authors":"J. M. William","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article begins by reviewing the related cognitive-scientific concepts of theory of mind (ToM), embedded mental states, intentionality, and recursive mindreading. The mental processes involved in discerning others' unstated thoughts and beliefs are essential not only to interacting with other humans in most situations but also to reading and understanding narratives. Literature models real-life situations and prompts us to practise our mindreading skills, generally with no social consequences. Through its simulation properties, literature also facilitates the scientific study of cognitive processes that are difficult to examine in real-life situations. An investigation into the creative use of embedded mental states by two prominent East German writers, Wolfgang Hilbig and Christa Wolf, illustrates both how cognitive studies can support literary analyses and how those analyses can, in turn, further the scientific understanding of the human brain's processing of intentionality and the mental states of others.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"130 1","pages":"57 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79252698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Karin Kukkonen. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet","authors":"J. Van Gilder","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.1.rev001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.1.rev001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77854529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading Minds","authors":"Christine Lehleiter","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.1.intro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.1.intro","url":null,"abstract":"The mind is a beautiful object of study. And the study of the mind is likely as old as human society itself. The origin story in the Abrahamic tradition tells of such first mindreading when Eve uses her ability to guess and kindle Adam’s desires to try the forbidden fruit—an act that bestows the ability for self-awareness, albeit leading to the shameful expulsion from the garden of Eden. Throughout history, the understanding of the human mind—here vaguely defined as an entity that unites faculties such as cognition, imagination, memory, and emotion (see “Mind”)—has taken many different forms. Religion, philosophy, and psychology are disciplines that have traditionally focused on its study, but quantitative and computational approaches have gained new prominence in exploring its properties. In Western thought, there exists a long and complex tradition to account for the mind within a dualistic framework. In this thinking, body and mind are considered two forces in tension with each other, the moral imperative being that the spiritual force ultimately overcomes the materiality of the body, which corrupts its integrity. And for important stretches of Western philosophy, the mind has been considered to be best studied by exercises of self-reflection, so much so that the epistemological conundrum implied in this approach was turned on its head by René Descartes by arguing that it provided the only possible certainty (Discours de la Méthode, 1637). But Descartes’s understanding of the human being as a thinking being still insisted on a split between “animal” machine and “human” mind that had already become problematic for him and contemporary thinkers. While often quoted and condemned for its reductive understanding of humanity, Julien Offray de La Mettrie’s L’Homme Machine (1747), which further explored Descartes’s suggestions, is less an apology for materialism than the expression of a deep uncertainty about how to conceptualize the human mind in the wake of secularization. The fear that approaches such as that of La Mettrie would coincide with a deterministic understanding of the human being—with all its ethical and legal implications—was immense, but the floodgates to rooting the mind in the fleshy matter of the body and its machine-like conception were opened. The attempts to locate the mind not in the soul but in the organ of the brain and its nervous extensions were increasingly accompanied by the conviction that the mind can be studied by methods that rely on sense perception and common experience (see Breidbach). While we know of early attempts to study the materiality of thought in the Western tradition (plates such as the one","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"26 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79509475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Katie Sutton. Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-Speaking World, 1890s–1930s","authors":"Ina Linge","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.1.rev003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.1.rev003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83598896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}