{"title":"Stefan Höppner. Goethes Bibliothek. Eine Sammlung und ihre Geschichte.","authors":"Benedikt Jessing","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"111 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139892562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith, editors. Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-Racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University","authors":"Tom Smith","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"47 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139885334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adam A. Blackler. An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa","authors":"Matthew Unangst","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"21 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139872187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding of the Nothing: Nihilation in Paul Celan’s Sprachgitter and Die Niemandsrose","authors":"Feng Dong","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers Paul Celan’s poetic treatment of the philosophical notion of the nothing ( das Nichts) in Sprachgitter (1959) and Die Niemandsrose (1963). In his middle period, Celan is drawn to what Martin Heidegger calls “the nihilation of the nothing.” For Heidegger, the nothing is a withdrawal of Being that crucially reveals beings as a whole and opens up chances of transcendence and freedom. For Celan, on the other hand, the question is instead to force thought-images of the nothing out of pre-existing conceptions in a way related to but different from both Heideggerian and theological discourses. Celan seems more concerned with how to be free in the face of the nihilation of memory and history, or how to “stand” on the philosophical un-ground as a German-Jewish poet after two world wars and the Holocaust. While recognizing the nothing as constitutive of Dasein, Celan treats the experience of nothingness as an endless fall into pure expanse due to the loss of the Same ( das Selbe).","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"35 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139826605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zeitwahrnehmung und -darstellung in Ludwig Tiecks Die Elfen und den Kindermärchen E.T.A. Hoffmanns","authors":"Christoph Seifener","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The present article discusses three romantic fairy tales which are closely linked by intertextual references and each of which focuses on children as main characters: Ludwig Tieck’s The Elves and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and The Strange Child. The article shows that these works reflect a changed concept and perception of time which emerged during the modernization process. It examines the ways in which the tales make various aspects of this “modern time regime” a subject of discussion and tries to work out how the authors position themselves regarding the problems and conflicts that result from the newly emerging concept of time. While Tieck deals with forms of acceleration embedded in economic interrelations, Hoffmann addresses issues arising from the establishment of time discipline and connects his reflections with his poetic concepts.","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"34 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139871997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, editors. German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770–2020","authors":"Alexandra Merley Stewart","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"38 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139829513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sean Eedy. Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic","authors":"Brigitte Rossbacher","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139885383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding of the Nothing: Nihilation in Paul Celan’s Sprachgitter and Die Niemandsrose","authors":"Feng Dong","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers Paul Celan’s poetic treatment of the philosophical notion of the nothing ( das Nichts) in Sprachgitter (1959) and Die Niemandsrose (1963). In his middle period, Celan is drawn to what Martin Heidegger calls “the nihilation of the nothing.” For Heidegger, the nothing is a withdrawal of Being that crucially reveals beings as a whole and opens up chances of transcendence and freedom. For Celan, on the other hand, the question is instead to force thought-images of the nothing out of pre-existing conceptions in a way related to but different from both Heideggerian and theological discourses. Celan seems more concerned with how to be free in the face of the nihilation of memory and history, or how to “stand” on the philosophical un-ground as a German-Jewish poet after two world wars and the Holocaust. While recognizing the nothing as constitutive of Dasein, Celan treats the experience of nothingness as an endless fall into pure expanse due to the loss of the Same ( das Selbe).","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"41 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139886214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John T. Hamilton. France/Kafka: An Author in Theory","authors":"Karolina Watroba","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"36 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139888476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, editors. German #MeToo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770–2020","authors":"Alexandra Merley Stewart","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139889435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}