{"title":"Leben erzählen: Stefan Zweigs biographisches Erzählen und sein Leben als Gegenstand biographischer Repräsentation","authors":"Carsten Rohde","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the narratological and semantic implications of Stefan Zweig’s biographical narration, demonstrating how the biographical texts and the fictional narratives differ in the degree to which they represent the complexity of the narrated life. This applies in a similar way to biographical literature about Stefan Zweig, which appears in different genres and media in the late modern age. The unifying focus of this essay is the mediality of narration, which draws attention to the given media-aesthetic peculiarities in each case and in sum clarifies the biographical complexity that relates to the narration of life in modernity.","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139877661","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":"23 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139812121","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":"969 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139825658","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":"163 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139825866","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":"Katrin Trüstedt. Stellvertretung: Zur Szene der Person","authors":"Ellwood Wiggins","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"133 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139830218","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":"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":"292 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139832914","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":"Katrin Trüstedt. Stellvertretung: Zur Szene der Person","authors":"Ellwood Wiggins","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139890040","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":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139828749","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":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139812237","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":"Leben erzählen: Stefan Zweigs biographisches Erzählen und sein Leben als Gegenstand biographischer Repräsentation","authors":"Carsten Rohde","doi":"10.3138/seminar.60.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.60.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the narratological and semantic implications of Stefan Zweig’s biographical narration, demonstrating how the biographical texts and the fictional narratives differ in the degree to which they represent the complexity of the narrated life. This applies in a similar way to biographical literature about Stefan Zweig, which appears in different genres and media in the late modern age. The unifying focus of this essay is the mediality of narration, which draws attention to the given media-aesthetic peculiarities in each case and in sum clarifies the biographical complexity that relates to the narration of life in modernity.","PeriodicalId":513344,"journal":{"name":"Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139817742","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}