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Inconclusive Text: On Paul Celan’s “Blume”
This paper presents a close reading of the poem “Blume,” which emphasizes the intertextual relations between the final and the preliminary drafts.
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Kafkas
Akademiebericht: Die auflösende ‘Ruhe’ als lebendige Varieténummer
SYLVAIN GUARDA
This paper explores the key concept of ‘Ruhe’ in “A Report to an Academy” (1917), essential for an understanding of its inception and Kafka’s spiritual ties to the
Christian and Greek tradition. Read more >>
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Friendship of Words: Philology and Prophesy in Hölderlin’s “Rousseau”
Taking its departure from Norbert von Hellingrath’s interpretation of the significance of Rousseau for Friedrich Hölderlin, the following paper argues, through a
close reading of the poem “Rousseau,” that Hölderlin, contra Hellingrath, conceives of his relation to Rousseau in philological rather than prophetic terms.
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Religion,
Naturalism, and the Paranormal in Heinrich von Kleist’s “St. Cäcilie” and “Der Zweikampf”
I argue that readings of Kleist’s “Die Heilige Cäcilie” and “Der Zweikampf” generally fall into religious, naturalistic, or poststructural camps, all of which fail
to appreciate the full strangeness of these texts.
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Reviews
Markus
Stock, Nicola Vöhringer, Hg. Spatial Practices. Medieval / Modern
Jane
K. Brown. Goethe’s Allegories of Identity
Christine
Lehleiter. Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity
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