{"title":"A City of Words: José F. A. Oliver’s Istanbul Poems","authors":"F. Kempf","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2095807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2095807","url":null,"abstract":"José F. A. Oliver’s experimental urban aesthetics requires a rethinking of the iconic figure of the flâneur. In Oliver’s Istanbul poems, the flâneur is disembodied, giving way to a peripatetic consciousness that engages the experiential heterogeneity of the encounter with the city on multiple levels — emotional, visual, cognitive, rhythmic, auditory, verbal — and versifies this engagement as a city of words. Through this poetic practice, the readers experience the city in their imagination, with vicarious trepidation and excitement. There is a democratic ethos underlying this non-instrumental creative mode, as it is not only the city that comes into being but also the poet and the reader.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"207 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42453448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screening White Reassurance: Insecurity and Redemption in Four German Africa Films","authors":"Philip Decker","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2095805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2095805","url":null,"abstract":"The German corpus of films about Africa, or Afrikafilme, is almost as old as German cinema itself. German film-makers have long instrumentalized the African continent as a prop for national self-confidence, either through ‘jungle adventure’ movies telegraphing the sophistication of European technology and navigation, or through overt white savior films asserting a superior German race and culture. As much as the Afrikafilme function as vehicles for German bravado, however, they are also repositories of profound insecurity and self-doubt. This study introduces the concept of ‘white reassurance’ to describe a subgenre of Afrikafilm that addresses this more uncertain side of the German encounter with Africa. Rather than insisting on German dominance, as white savior films do, white reassurance narratives feature unsettled German protagonists who passively approach African peoples in hopes of receiving moral validation, praise, or comfort. The study examines four such Afrikafilme from the Weimar, East German and post-1990 cinematic traditions, dealing with four specific crises: decolonization, Holocaust guilt, the failures of socialism, and postmodern angst. Though each film reflects a distinct sociopolitical context, all four externalize insecurities to African settings in similar ways, betraying a persistent fantasy that Africa can provide relief, however vaguely conceived, from German disquiet.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"161 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42949944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘ … wie eine unregelmäßige Wiederholung der Vergangenheit’: Time and History in Theodora Bauer’s Novel Chikago (2017)","authors":"Ludwig Deringer","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066869","url":null,"abstract":"The second novel of Theodora Bauer (b. 1990) demonstrates the importance of historical awareness in contemporary Austrian literature and the significance of the ‘temporal turn’ in literary studies, time studies, and memory studies. Chikago is a Zeitroman in a double sense, referencing historical time and reflecting on time as such. Predicated on Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ewige Wiederkunft’, it turns a story of emigration and re-migration in the 1920s and 30s, the rise of Fascism, and of precarious lives into a parable for our own day.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"92 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41999769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heinrich Böll heute: Ansichten zu seinem Roman Gruppenbild mit Dame","authors":"H. Hahn","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066860","url":null,"abstract":"Böll’s famous novel seems in danger of being forgotten; this paper attempts to demonstrate its enduring topicality and relevance to the present day. It focuses on three themes: concern for humanity (Menschlichkeit), rejection of a capitalist market economy, and a re-evaluation of the concept of ‘wastefulness’, including racist and economic aspects. Set in Germany over half a century (1920–1971), Böll’s critique of power politics, socio-economic and religious predominance is still relevant today.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"77 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46232550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nigel F. Palmer","authors":"J. Reed, H. Lähnemann","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2077594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2077594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45395036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Polen! Herd des Märtyrtums Um Die Sünden der Welt!’ Polenbilder in Gespräche mit Dämonen von Bettina von Arnim","authors":"Nina Nowara-Matusik","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2065795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2065795","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the divergent traditional stereotypes of Poland—the ‘Sarmatic’ and the ‘Messianic’—in Bettina von Arnim’s Gespräche mit Dämonen (1852). Her very positive view of Poland coincides with deep-rooted Polish self-images, but depoliticises them into something genuinely poetic.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"33 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45085331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Text und Stadt in der Pandemie. Zur funktionalen Klassifikation von öffentlichen Texten in der Coronakrise","authors":"Roman Opiłowski","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066862","url":null,"abstract":"In times of the corona virus, social coexistence is changing in many spheres, including communication in the public space of cities. Communication reacted to interpersonal needs and expectations in multimodal texts with formal, content and functional design means. In this article, individual text types are classified to illustrate the functional spectrum of multimodal communication in the city. The qualitative analysis is based on photographed texts related to Corona from the LinguaSnappHamburg project (University of Hamburg). The approaches of Linguistic Landscapes, Urban Linguistics, Media Linguistic Landscapes and Semiotic Linguistics form an important pragmatic and theoretical background. They name relevant features and provide insights into city texts on which this study is based. Furthermore, views and characteristics of public texts before and during the pandemic are presented in order to develop a functional classification against this background. The classified text types include regulative, discursive, altruistic, social, declarative, and commercial texts, which sometimes have specific subtypes. They are discussed using relevant examples within the framework of multimodal form and content analysis. The text types and the analyses carried out capture a relevant section of communicative actions in the pandemic as well as social knowledge about the corona virus.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"106 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47049963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Reformation Wittenberg to Civil War Oxford: A Humanist Bible in the Fellows’ Library of Jesus College, Oxford","authors":"Anna Linton","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2065107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2065107","url":null,"abstract":"A Greek folio bible published in 1545, containing both Old and New Testaments, is testimony to the collaboration of two important figures: Philipp Melanchthon, author of the preface, and the Basel printer Johannes Herwagen. The volume’s interest for the historian of the book is enhanced by inscriptions on its endpapers from Melanchthon and other humanists and reformers (Georg Major, Joachim Camerarius, Caspar Cruciger, Johannes Stigel, Georg Sabinus, Paul Eber, and Hubert Languet). This article traces the history of the volume from its origins in Basel through its stay in Wittenberg to its current resting place in Jesus College Fellows’ Library, Oxford. It places it in the context of the upheavals of both the Schmalkaldic Wars and the English Civil Wars, considering the various networks in which the volume participates, and reproduces for the first time the inscriptions with translations.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"3 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49293608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freud’s Queer Fellow: Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary Modernism","authors":"A. Sobolewska","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2022.2066867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2022.2066867","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to interpret the psychoanalytical thought of Georg Groddeck (1866–1934) presented in his post-1918 literary works and essays. In 1917, Groddeck contacted Sigmund Freud and thereby entered German-language psychoanalytic circles. In 1921, he published a psychoanalytic novel titled Der Seelensucher. Ein psychoanalytischer Roman. Two years later, he followed it by The Book of the It. Psychoanalytic Letters to a Friend (Das Buch vom Es. Psychoanalytische Briefe an eine Freundin), which disputed Freud’s concept of the unconscious. This paper postulates that Groddeck cleared new paths for the psychoanalytic thought of that time and thus anticipated later theoretical propositions in gender studies and queer theory. It also sheds light on the modernist dimension of the German physician’s work, which can be found both in his experimental approach towards the languages of literature and medicine, and in his transformation of Freud’s theoretical concepts.","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 1","pages":"45 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48450550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to Oxford German Studies 50","authors":"H. Lähnemann","doi":"10.1080/00787191.2021.2021015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2021.2021015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53844,"journal":{"name":"OXFORD GERMAN STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"365 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43354373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}