History, Text, Value: Essays on Adalbert Stifter: Londoner Symposium 2003(88 Institute of Germanic Studies Publications)

These essays contribute to the lively critical debate that has arisen over the past two decades, a debate fuelled by a number of concerns: Stifter’s historicity as the late inheritor of the great Classical-Romantic period of German literature, his modernity as the spokesman for disunity and the perilous condition of the human subject, and his post-modernity, as evidenced by the signs of self-referentiality and quasi-ritualistic performativity associated with post-modern cultural practices which his writing begins to display.

Table of Contents:
Michael Minden, Martin Swales and Godela Weiss-Sussex: Preface | Introduction Stifter in Theory Michael Minden: Stifter and the Postmodern Sublime Ulrike Vedder: Erbschaft und Gabe, Schriften und Plunder. Stifters testamentarische Schreibweise Rüdiger Görner: Stifter oder die Ästhetik des Grenzwertes Stifter and History Johann Lachinger: Wien und die Wiener: Stifters zivilisationskritische Perspektiven auf die Großstadt von oben und von unten Marcus Hahn: Stifters 'Garten voll Gespenster'. Epigonalität / 'Postmoderne', Narrenburg / Nachkommenschaften The Currency of Love in Der Nachsommer Gerhard Neumann: Archäologie der Passion. Zum Liebeskonzept in Stifters Der Nachsommer Peter C. Pfeiffer: Adalbert Stifter's Money Thing Narrative Structures and Perceptual Modes Cornelia Blasberg: Augenlider des Erzählens. Zu Adalbert Stifters gerahmten Erzählungen Dagmar von Hoff: Krise der Wahrnehmung: Das Aufmerksamkeitsdispositiv bei Adalbert Stifter in Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters in der Studien-Fassung Wolfgang Lukas: 'Anthropologische Restauration'. Adalbert Stifters Erzählung Der Hochwald im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Novellistik Stifter and Otherness Nicholas Saul: '... Die schönste Menschengestalt': The Nature, Culture and Ethnography of Stifter's Gypsies Alexander Stillmark: Latent Antinomies. Stifter's Treatment of the Extraordinary Monika Ehlers: 'Das Weib erträgt den Himmel nicht' - Grenzwahrnehmungen in Stifters Condor Establishing the Text Johannes John: Einige Bemerkungen zu einem 'Work in Progress': Zum momentanen Stand der Historisch-Kritischen Ausgabe der Werke und Briefe Adalbert Stifters Band beinhaltet 1 Abbildung

About the Author :
Godela Weiss-Sussex is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at at SAS, University of London, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing. Her main research interests lie in the culture and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the following areas: women’s writing, the works of German-Jewish writers produced in Germany and in exile; multi- and translingualism; postmigrant imaginaries of belonging.