Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 2 of 24
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Adelson, Leslie A.

Title Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form.

Publication Info. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (316 pages).
text file PDF
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.
Note Postscript: Futurity as Fairy Tale? From Flaschenpost to Nachricht and More.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Kluge, Alexander, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Kluge, Alexander, 1932-
Criticism and interpretation.
Indexed Term (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
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Adelson, Leslie A. Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, ©2017 9783110523843
ISBN 9783110525649 (electronic book)
311052564X (electronic book)
9783110524321 (electronic book)
3110524325 (electronic book)
9783110525656 (electronic book)
3110525658 (electronic book)
3110523841
9783110523843
Standard No. 10.1515/9783110525649
9783110524321
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201704193018