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Author Adelson, Leslie A

Title Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
Series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; v. 22
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
Contents Acknowledgements ; Contents ; Introduction: Hope in Time ; Part One. Cosmic Miniatures and Critical Horizons: Exercising the Future Sense ; 1 Heliotropic Horizons with and beyond Benjamin ; 2 Heliotropic Narrative with and beyond Adorno ; 2.1 Something Missing and Counterfactual Hope
2.2 Gap Aesthetics and "Ways Out" 2.3 Utopian Longing and Narrative Orientation ; 2.4 Adorno's "Heliotrope" and Oscillating Perspective ; 2.5 Kluge's Flawed Beauty and Unnatural Narration ; 2.6 Kluge's Future Narrative: "Saturday in Utopia."
3 Extraterrestrial Speculations with and beyond Kant Part Two. Global Miniatures and Marxist Horizons: Conjunctions in Narrative Time ; 1 Permanent Revolution ; 2 Global Connectivity ; 3 Revolutionary Subjectivity ; 4 Counter-Catastrophic Futurity
Part Three. German Miniatures and Perspectival Horizons: Recalibrating Historical Voice 1 Persons One Can Lose and Those One Can Gain ; 2 The Six-Year-Old within Me, the Starry Sky above Me, and Narrative Voice
3 Long Arcs of Cosmic Formation and the Narrative Trajectory of First-Person Pronouns 4 Werner Scholem and the Life Writing of the Future Sense ; 5 Making Time: Zeit-Zeugen, Holocaust History, and Co-Operative Voice
Summary The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span all periods of German and German-speaking lands and cultures from the local to the global, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines - history, musicology, art history, anthropology, religious studies, media studies, political theory, literary and cultural studies, among others - and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to
Analysis (Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004170
Futurity; narrative; literary miniatures; critical theory; globalization
(VLB-WN)9563
Futility
critical theory
globalization
literary miniatures
narrative
(Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke
Notes Postscript: Futurity as Fairy Tale? From Flaschenpost to Nachricht and More
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
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Subject Kluge, Alexander, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Kluge, Alexander, 1932- fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Experimentelle Prosa
Literarische Form
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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