{"title":"Mit Nonchalance am Abgrund. Das Kino der >>Neuen Münchner Gruppe<< (1964-1972) By Marco Abel, Transcript, 2024, pp. 386. € 39,30 (softcover)","authors":"Evan Torner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"227-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366464","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":"Gescheiterter Kolumbus. Kolonialismus und Seefahrt in der deutschsprachigen Literatur vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert By Raluca Rădulescu, Winter, 2024. pp. 420. € 66,00 (hardcover)","authors":"Carola Daffner","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"233-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366446","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":"Global Germany Circa 1800: A Revisionist Literary History By Todd Kontje, Penn State University Press. 2025. pp. 226. $59.95 (hardcover)","authors":"Andrea Meyertholen","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"230-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366918","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":"“Time(-space) Out of Joint: Franz Kafka's Disrupted Chronotopes”","authors":"Asif Rahamim","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article introduces a new approach to spatial anomalies in Franz Kafka's work by examining them through Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the literary chronotope, situating it within the broader framework of Bakhtin's earlier ideas on answerability, responsibility, and the ethics of the act. Conceived as a triangular existential structure of possibility comprising time, space, and action, the expanded notion of the Bakhtinian chronotope serves as a key for remapping Kafka's oeuvre based on the distinct types of chronotopic disruptions it displays. These systematic disruptions erode the agency of Kafka's protagonists, leaving them unable to act properly, i.e., with genuine answerability at decisive moments. This, in turn, discloses a fundamental principle of Kafka's work: the irrevocable rupture between the spatiotemporal structures of possibility and the domain of human action.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"173-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metamorphosen: Stefan Zweigs Rausch der Verwandlung, ein soziales Experiment","authors":"Alexandra Juster","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nach dem kürzlich vergangenen Kafka-Jahr 2024 gewinnt das Thema der Metamorphose an neuer Aktualität. Der Begriff der Metamorphose wird nach Ovids <i>Metamorphosen</i> (8 v. Chr.) spontan mit Kafkas Werk <i>Die Verwandlung</i> (1912) verbunden. Während diese beiden Werke die Verwandlung auf Äußerliches beschränken, liegt das Interesse von Zweigs <i>Rausch der Verwandlung</i> (1982) in der Verbindung von äußerer Verwandlung und innerer identitätsstiftender Mutation. Aus der armen, unsicheren Postgehilfin Christine Hoflehner wird in einem Schweizer Luxushotel für kurze Zeit die wohlhabende, selbstbewusste Christiane von Boolen. Die gesellschaftliche Anerkennung bestätigt das neue Selbstbild der jungen Frau. Doch die abrupte Rückkehr in ihr ehemaliges Leben erweist sich als äußerst problematisch, insofern die kurze Erfahrung der Verwandlung Christines Blick auf ihre eigene Realität verändert und sie sowohl der erlebten Luxuswelt als auch ihrem vorherigen Leben entfremdet hat. Was bleibt, ist die Erkenntnis der sozialen Ungerechtigkeit und der Starrheit der gesellschaftlichen Struktur: Die Metamorphose als Experiment gesellschaftlicher Veränderung ist gescheitert.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"191-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“…dass diese Gefühle und Gedanken wieder Gefühle und Gedanken wecken…”: Ernst Moritz Arndt, Nationalist Writing, and the Aesthetics of Interest","authors":"Jeffrey Hertel","doi":"10.1111/gequ.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During his career as poet and pamphleteer of the <i>Befreiungskriege</i>, Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) made use of a then-new aesthetic trend that insisted that modern art must by nature be interested art. Such interest-driven art is, this paper argues, the key to his success as a poet and nationalist demagogue. The importance of such art for Arndt's oeuvre is evident in his prose and poetry. Looking at various representatives of German idealism, this essay first recounts the definitional shifts interest underwent in the aesthetic theories of German idealism before presenting Arndt as a pivotal link in the transition from Kantian disinterested enjoyment of beauty to the engaged, interested ideological writing of which Arndt was himself a propagator. Here, ideological interests are compounded in writing with violent emotion and religious pathos, heralding a key moment in the advent of modern ideological literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"98 3","pages":"209-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366936","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}