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

ISBN-13: 9783110523843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Leslie A. Adelson

Opis

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 German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor:
Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Recenzje

"Cosmic Miniatures makes a vital contribution to this growing body of scholarship about Kluge, but it also contributes to our understanding of futurity, narratology, "small forms," and the legacy of the Frankfurt School. Finally, even as it embraces cosmic and futural perspectives, Adelson's book is an intensive study of contemporary culture."
Matthew Johnson in: The Germanic Review 94.3 (2019), 267-270

"Masterful in its close readings, innovative in its theoretical and methodological approach, and visionary in its overarching conceptualization of Kluge's literary project, Adelson's study sets a new standard."
Richard Langston in: Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 16 (2017), 360-362

"Given the immensity and variety of Kluge's production, scholars are tempted to address all of its aspects in the hope of somehow encompassing this astonishing body of work. Taking the opposite tack, Adelson trades in the extensive for the intensive, with brilliant results: equipped with the instruments of critical theory and postclassical narratology, Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense bores incisively at one small corner of the Klugean universe--the literary miniature--to reveal the vast philosophical realm that is contained in this minor form. With great analytic precision, stylistic nuance, and no small amount of imagination, Adelson has succeeded in placing Kluge in an entirely new constellation of thought."
(Devin Fore, Princeton University)

"Beautifully and clearly written, Leslie Adelson's study of the future sense in Kluge's 21^st-century prose miniatures develops a breathtaking dialogue between theoretical archives rarely brought together: German critical theory meets postclassical narratology, and memory studies are opened up towards futurity on the entangled scales of the national, the planetary and the cosmic. In imbricating phenomenological, materialist and epistemological perspectives, this dialogue forcefully conceptualizes the understudied narrative dimension of Kluge's work while challenging contemporary narrative theory to make room for the ways in which Kluge's experiments with narrative voice, perspective and temporality expand the realm of the sensible towards counterfactual hope."
(Claudia Breger, Indiana University Bloomington)

O autorze

Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.