Research Catalog

Title

Time in German literature and culture, 1900-2015 : between acceleration and slowness / edited by Anne Fuchs (University of Warwick, UK) and J.J. Long (Durham University, UK).

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fuchs, Anne
• Long, J. J. (Jonathan James), 1969-

Description

xiv, 283 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in modern European literature

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• German literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Time perception in literature
• Time in literature
• Time > Philosophy
• Space and time
• German literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.

Contents

Introduction: faulty clocks, human errors and the management of time in modernity and late modernity / Anne Fuchs and J.J. Long -- Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration, Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse / Anne Fuchs -- How Long does the Present Last? Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon / Aleida Assmann -- Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- Epistemology, Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900 / Dirk Göttsche -- Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka's Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912 / Elizabeth Boa -- Icons of Speed, Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture / Matthias Uecker -- Snapshot, Composite, Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic / J.J. Long -- Syncope, Pause, Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration / Carolin Duttlinger -- "Good Work": Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold's Barbara / Andrew J. Webber -- Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the "Information Rapids" with Angela Krauß / Gillian Pye -- The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature / Mary Cosgrove.

Call Number

JFD 16-1682

ISBN

• 9781137411860
• 1137411864

LCCN

2015018353

OCLC

936082463

Title

Time in German literature and culture, 1900-2015 : between acceleration and slowness / edited by Anne Fuchs (University of Warwick, UK) and J.J. Long (Durham University, UK).

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in modern European literature

Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Fuchs, Anne, editor.

Long, J. J. (Jonathan James), 1969- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1682