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Repetitio Sententiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann, and the Implications of Citation Precisely as a repetition of language, citation entails an act of speaking that is, at the same time, an act of listening, or an act of writing... more
John Hamilton: Rahmen, Küsten und Nachhaltigkeiten in Theodor Storms Der Schimmelreiter Überströme Wenn es Ziel des literarischen Realismus ist, die Wirklichkeit darzustellen, dann stellt Theodor Storms Novelle Der Schimmelreiter (1888)... more
In the prefatory remarks to his Rettungen des Horaz (Vindications of Horace, 1754), Lessing elucidates his approach to classical antiquity by means of an elaborate analogy: 'Ich selbst kann mir keine angenehmere Beschä ftigung machen, als... more
A la fin de sa nouvelle Gambara de 1837, qui traite d'un compositeur de génie mais vraisemblablement fou, réduit de plus à la pauvreté la plus absolue, Balzac fait prononcer à son protagoniste musicien ce jugement sur lui-même :
4 When one broaches the topic of music and torture, one generally has in 5 mind how music or sound has been and continues to be used as an instrument for 6 inflicting pain. One perhaps thinks about the disparate claims, substantiated or... more
In the electronic anthill, where are the edges? The book revolution, which, from the Renaissance on, taught men and women to cherish and cultivate their individuality, threatens to end in a sparkling cloud of snippets.
In 1915, at the urging of the editors of the psychoanalytic journal Imago, Freud composed his " Timely Thoughts on War and Death, " in which he offers some reflections on the failures of enlightened civilization and the consequent change... more
The discovery of a perfectly preserved corpse in the mines of Falun instigated a series of literary elaborations from the 18th to the 20th century. In focusing on E. T. A. Hoffmann's rendering, the present essay explores the implicit... more