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{"title":"Benjamins Kafka: Im Zwielicht der Betrachtung","authors":"Anette Schwarz","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12478","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"526-528"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862388","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":"Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany By Jeffrey Schneider, University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. 344. $42.95 (paperback) $42.95 (e-book and pdf)","authors":"Lynne Tatlock","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"557-559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862284","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":"Imprints in the cosmic background radiation: Franz Kafka and the multiverse","authors":"Kata Gellen","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"547-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862183","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":"German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production: 1848–1919 By Lynne Tatlock and Kurt Beals (Eds.), Camden House. 2023. pp. 336. $120 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook).","authors":"Daniel DiMassa","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"567-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862157","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":"Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory By Eric L. Santner, University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 256. $75.00 (hardcover), $25.00 (paperback), $24.99 (ebook)","authors":"Britton Edelen","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"573-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862182","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":"Amorous politics","authors":"John Zilcosky","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12488","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Was Kafka a political resister? His early biographer, Klaus Wagenbach, called him a socialist. Theodor Adorno saw defiance in Kafka's “autonome” art (135). Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari cited Kafka's stubborn bachelordom as a politics of flight. Steven Soderbergh imagined an anarchic, violent freedom fighter in <i>Kafka</i>. But might the poet from Prague be offering us another, universally relevant form of resistance? One closer to all of us, hiding in plain sight? Yes, I say: the politics of radical love. It simmers throughout Kafka's texts and explodes powerfully in his last attempt at a novel, his magnum opus, <i>Das Schloß</i>.</p><p>The protagonist, K., meets Frieda, who has a striking look (<i>Blick</i>) in her eye (<i>Schloß</i> 60). This look reveals her readiness for a great struggle. Despite knowing her for less than an hour, K. tells her that they will struggle together. They will become an unusual couple refusing to conform to the expectations of the world. Only by joining forces can they gain the necessary strength: “Die Widerstände der Welt sind groß, sie werden größer mit den größeren Zielen und es ist keine Schande sich die Hilfe selbst eines kleinen einflußlosen aber ebenso kämpfenden Mannes zu sichern” (63–64).</p><p>The parallels are unmistakable between “Frieda” and “Felice”: Felice Bauer, to whom Kafka was twice engaged. With Felice, he had the only satisfying sexual experience in his life, while they were staying in adjoining hotel rooms. He was overcome by her <i>Blick</i>: “Jetzt aber sah ich den Blick des Vertrauens einer Frau und konnte mich nicht verschließen,” and “schön der Blick ihrer besänftigten Augen, das Sichöffnen frauenhafter Tiefe” (<i>Briefe 1914–17</i> 173; <i>Tagebücher</i> 795). Just as K. will take the castle by storm with Frieda, Kafka now plans to establish an intimate, radical household with Felice. He will leave Prague for her hometown of Berlin, where they will sleep in separate rooms with an adjoining door, just as in that magical hotel (<i>Briefe 1914–17</i> 173).</p><p>Neither Kafka's nor K.’s relationship works out, but that subtracts nothing from their potential. The psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg argued that some couples develop a “private morality” that allows them to resist convention (175). Although coupling itself is conventional, amorous pairs are the unit most capable of defying established beliefs, Kernberg insists. Couples are stronger than individuals yet small enough to avoid groupthink. Their independence threatens unstructured groups like political parties or, in Kafka's novel, the village cliques. In a line that Kafka struck through in his draft, K. tells Frieda that her stunning gaze (<i>Blick</i>) belongs to her but also to something larger than her: “Es ist ein Blick, der gewissermassen noch gar nicht Ihnen gehört und doch ihnen mehr” (<i>Schloß: Apparatband</i> 182). A couple of pages later, K. and Frieda conjoin in lovemaking that feels like a shared ethics: they experien","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"554-556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12488","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862156","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":"“Das Problem des Stilwandels”: Stylistic Transformation in the Work of Emil Staiger","authors":"Elisa Ronzheimer","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reconstructs a theoretical and methodological problem in the work of German literary scholar Emil Staiger, a representative of the postwar school of <i>Werkimmanenz</i>, which called for a renewal of form-sensitive practices of reading. It analyzes Staiger's notion of style and traces its application in his monumental <i>Goethe</i> monograph and his essay collection <i>Stilwandel</i>, highlighting the difficulties that arise from Staiger's attempt to operationalize style in the sense of an artwork's inner unity (“Einstimmigkeit”) for his study of dynamic and changing forms. These difficulties led him to reframe his notion of style in a 1968 paper that, however, ultimately left the problem of how to write a history of literary styles unresolved.</p>","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"506-521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12476","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862125","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":"Recovering Kafka's rhetorical unconscious","authors":"Stanley Corngold","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12479","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Kafka has become answerable to cultural studies, in one form or another, to an extraordinary degree—a fact that speaks for the seemingly inexhaustible ability of his work to accommodate “forms of the real” both contemporaneous with his writing and in the decades following. So, there is Kafka, with his celebrated “Ohr für das Kommende,” held, as in “Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer,” &lt;i&gt;Das Schloß&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Der Proceß&lt;/i&gt;, to have anticipated today's intractable border disputes, relentless immigration, and baffling simulacra, as if AI-generated. This approach, now so widely extended, marks, to my mind, a crisis, recalling us to the detail of Kafka's prose that mattered most to him as arising, we might say (and as Lacan has said) from his rhetorical unconscious. We know that it was Kafka's practice to frequent bookstores and riffle through the pages of the new arrivals, something short of reading them with the sort of engagement that justifies his mooted encyclopedic anticipations. His work is certainly full of allusions to contemporary authors and issues suggestive of our own; and even where they are not explicitly named, we are entitled to conclude the impossibility of proving that any such matter was &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; known to him. For example, he does not appear to have written down the name Nietzsche, but it is certain that he knew a great deal about him. And yet we should not leave home for all this border-crossing. I call for a return to Kafka's text with its special intensity drawn from regions “below,” following “dieses Hinabgehen zu den dunklen Mächten, diese Entfesselung von Natur aus gebundener Geister, fragwürdige Umarmungen und was alles noch unten vor sich gehen mag, von dem man oben nichts mehr weiß, wenn man im Sonnenlicht Geschichten schreibt” (Kafka to Brod; &lt;i&gt;Briefe&lt;/i&gt; 384). This underworld is explosive with sexual and aggressive energies, confirmed, as it happens, by Kafka's saying to Max Brod, in answer to Brod's question of what Kafka meant with the concluding sentence of “Das Urteil,” “Ich habe dabei an eine starke Ejakulation gedacht” (Beug and Heller 20).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where, exactly, does this alleged crisis take us? In a diary entry, Kafka wrote, “Mein Inneres löst sich […] und ist bereit Tieferes hervorzulassen” (&lt;i&gt;Tagebücher&lt;/i&gt; 139). It is a truth universally acknowledged that many of Kafka's most telling inspirations—in the form of pregnant, “vacillating” (Lacan) metaphors—arrive on the page as if expelled from the unconscious: they have something to tell that springs over the artificial, daylit borders between stories. We want to pay attention to them in their rhetorical journey: they have no easy correlates with the empirical &lt;i&gt;Realien&lt;/i&gt; of cultural studies, as, for example, the pocket. In “Das Urteil,” this signifier has lethal implications, marking the peak moment of aggression by a son to his father. You recall: as Herr Bendemann and his son Georg seem to share the running of a business, the father declares that he, ","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"529-531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gequ.12479","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862127","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":"Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism: Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics By Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (Eds.), Camden House. 2024. pp. 256. $120 (hardcover), $29.95 (ebook).","authors":"Barbara Mennel","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"570-572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869073","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":"Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism By Claire E. Scott, Peter Lang. 2022. pp. 212. $72.95 (paperback or ebook)","authors":"Alexandra M. Stewart","doi":"10.1111/gequ.12490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12490","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54057,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN QUARTERLY","volume":"97 4","pages":"564-566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862126","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}