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"If We Had The Word": Ingeborg Bachmann, Views And Reviews (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
"If We Had The Word": Ingeborg Bachmann, Views And Reviews (Book Review), Kathrin Bower
Kathrin M. Bower
This collection of essays grew from a 1996 symposium held at SUNY-Binghamton to commemorate what would have been Ingeborg Bachmann's seventieth birthday. Gisela Brinker-Gabler, the symposium organizer, provides a brief foreword to the volume. Brinker-Gabler begins by articulating parallels between Ingeborg Bachmann and the poet Sylvia Plath, both in terms of their poetic prowess and their fascination with death, but the foreword is primarily a short literary biography of Bachmann, noting the highlights in her career and the difference in reception between her poetry and prose. While the foreword does serve to situate Bachmann as a writer, it does not …
Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott
Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
An exploration of the possibilities of painting a novel, of producing an abstract response to characters and plot of Zarko Radakovic's novel Pogled/Der Blick/The View.
Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Scott Abbott
Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
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Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott
Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott
Dreamland: The Way Out Of Juarez, Scott Abbott
Eschatalogicallandscape, Kirby Farrell Prof
Eschatalogicallandscape, Kirby Farrell Prof
kirby farrell
Nazi obsession with art can be understood as a strategy for managing death-anxiety. The venerable trope of "immortal art" took on fetishistic qualities in the fantasies of the Nazi leadership. For many of them, art compensated for the trauma of World War I by framing idealized vitality invested with visionary self-expansiveness, as in the hyperbolic nudes of Thorak and Brekker, combined with a nostalgic recuperation of lost Victorian-era authority. In Ernest Becker’s terms, as creaturely motives, the manic looting of art works described in Lynn Nicholas’ The Rape of Europa acts out greed for life, appropriating hypostatized vitality as the …
The Language Of War, Scott Abbott
Healthy Decadence? Utah Art Through A German Lens, Scott Abbott
Healthy Decadence? Utah Art Through A German Lens, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
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