Bianca Theisen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bianca Theisen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bianca |
| FAMILY NAME | Theisen |
| SIGNATURE | THEISEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Natural History of Destruction
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a scientific and philosophical revolution that discarded the closed cosmos determined by a hierarchy of values and saturated by a dense web of meanings for the rationalist and scientific embrace of a devalued world of facts. In The Rings of Saturn, Sebald rediscovers those sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists, thinkers, and authors such as Albrecht Dürer, Thomas Browne, and Hans Jakob Christ…
Simultaneity
Simultaneity.A Narrative Figure in Kleist Bianca Theisen Note from the editor: These pages were written as the first two sections of a longer essay on Kleist. Bianca Theisen planned to take the argument which she developed here to the "Marionette Theater" in the main body of the intended essay. The reading she wanted to propose seems to be roughly the same as in "Dancing with Words," the paper published after this one. The fragment presented here…
The Art of Erasing Art
The Art of Erasing Art.Thomas Bernhard Bianca Theisen If there is an art of erasing art in what have been called the "self-erasing narratives" of postmodernism,1 those kinds of art call attention to the very form of art, as that which differentiates art from everything else, namely non-art. What postmodern art aims at, then, is art's mode of presentation or of observation, which, as Niklas Luhmann has suggested, is to observe the unobservable. Ar…
The Drama in Rags
The Drama in Rags:Shakespeare Reception in Eighteenth-Century Germany Bianca Theisen For the early eighteenth century, Shakespeare stood as the token figure for a liberal departure from normative poetics. Imperious advocates of a restrained, rule-governed poetics such as Voltaire or Gottsched thundered against the irregularity of Shakespearean drama, decrying its monstrous hybridization of the tragic, the comic and the lyrical, railing at the com…
Metamorphosen der Literatur
Metamorphosen der Literatur:Christoph Ransmayrs Die letzte Welt Bianca Theisen Verwandlungsgeschichten gehören zweifellos zum Grundbestand volkstümlichen Erzählens im Mythus oder im Märchen. Sie folgen oft dem Typ der Degradation, der Verwandlung eines Menschen ins Nicht-Menschliche—in Tier, Pflanze oder Stein—oder entsprechen dem Typ der Aszension, einer Verwandlung, die das bloß menschliche Dasein ins Göttliche oder Astrale transzendiert. Beide…
Spacing the Feminine
Spacing the Feminine Bianca Theisen Even though gender difference is widely perceived as fundamental, Lou Andreas Salomé argued in her essay "Eroticism" from 1910 that the male and the female are opposed only on a surface level, while at a deeper level these apparent oppositions in fact cross over into each other and meet. Salomé captures their coincidence with what she calls a "duality as unity and unity as duality."1 Such a paradox of a unity d…
The Simultaneity of Media
Simultaneity of Media:Kafka’s Literary Screen Bianca Theisen A train appears at the horizon; we see the locomotive, expanding in our field of vision, suddenly emerging in front of us in a split-second and coming to a stop at the station; a conductor hurries to open the coach doors, passengers get off the train, rearrange their clothing and carry their luggage: their movements seem spontaneous and unintentional. And thus, as Henri Clouzot conclude…
Dancing With Words
With its puzzling hypothesis that marionettes dance with more grace than human dancers, Kleist's essay "On The Marionette Theatre" outlines a mechanistic aesthetics of dance which departs from late eighteenth-century notions of dance as a natural expression of passions, as for instance Noverre had promoted them in his attempt to sever ballet and pantomime from their ties to comedy and commedia del'arte and to reform ballet through recourse to ant…
Prose of the World
The Four Sides of Reading
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Logologics
Comitragedies
MLN - Volume 111, Number 3, April 1996 (German Issue)
Die 'Weibliche' List im 'mannlichen' Text. Jean-Jacques Rousseau in der Feministischen Kritik
A Natural History of Destruction
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a scientific and philosophical revolution that discarded the closed cosmos determined by a hierarchy of values and saturated by a dense web of meanings for the rationalist and scientific embrace of a devalued world of facts. In The Rings of Saturn, Sebald rediscovers those sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists, thinkers, and authors such as Albrecht Dürer, Thomas Browne, and Hans Jakob Christ…
Dancing With Words
With its puzzling hypothesis that marionettes dance with more grace than human dancers, Kleist's essay "On The Marionette Theatre" outlines a mechanistic aesthetics of dance which departs from late eighteenth-century notions of dance as a natural expression of passions, as for instance Noverre had promoted them in his attempt to sever ballet and pantomime from their ties to comedy and commedia del'arte and to reform ballet through recourse to ant…
Prose of the World
Die 'Weibliche' List im 'mannlichen' Text. Jean-Jacques Rousseau in der Feministischen Kritik
Comitragedies
MLN - Volume 111, Number 3, April 1996 (German Issue)
Logologics
The Four Sides of Reading
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Prose of the World
A Natural History of Destruction
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a scientific and philosophical revolution that discarded the closed cosmos determined by a hierarchy of values and saturated by a dense web of meanings for the rationalist and scientific embrace of a devalued world of facts. In The Rings of Saturn, Sebald rediscovers those sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists, thinkers, and authors such as Albrecht Dürer, Thomas Browne, and Hans Jakob Christ…
Simultaneity
Simultaneity.A Narrative Figure in Kleist Bianca Theisen Note from the editor: These pages were written as the first two sections of a longer essay on Kleist. Bianca Theisen planned to take the argument which she developed here to the "Marionette Theater" in the main body of the intended essay. The reading she wanted to propose seems to be roughly the same as in "Dancing with Words," the paper published after this one. The fragment presented here…
The Art of Erasing Art
The Art of Erasing Art.Thomas Bernhard Bianca Theisen If there is an art of erasing art in what have been called the "self-erasing narratives" of postmodernism,1 those kinds of art call attention to the very form of art, as that which differentiates art from everything else, namely non-art. What postmodern art aims at, then, is art's mode of presentation or of observation, which, as Niklas Luhmann has suggested, is to observe the unobservable. Ar…
The Drama in Rags
The Drama in Rags:Shakespeare Reception in Eighteenth-Century Germany Bianca Theisen For the early eighteenth century, Shakespeare stood as the token figure for a liberal departure from normative poetics. Imperious advocates of a restrained, rule-governed poetics such as Voltaire or Gottsched thundered against the irregularity of Shakespearean drama, decrying its monstrous hybridization of the tragic, the comic and the lyrical, railing at the com…
Metamorphosen der Literatur
Metamorphosen der Literatur:Christoph Ransmayrs Die letzte Welt Bianca Theisen Verwandlungsgeschichten gehören zweifellos zum Grundbestand volkstümlichen Erzählens im Mythus oder im Märchen. Sie folgen oft dem Typ der Degradation, der Verwandlung eines Menschen ins Nicht-Menschliche—in Tier, Pflanze oder Stein—oder entsprechen dem Typ der Aszension, einer Verwandlung, die das bloß menschliche Dasein ins Göttliche oder Astrale transzendiert. Beide…
Spacing the Feminine
Spacing the Feminine Bianca Theisen Even though gender difference is widely perceived as fundamental, Lou Andreas Salomé argued in her essay "Eroticism" from 1910 that the male and the female are opposed only on a surface level, while at a deeper level these apparent oppositions in fact cross over into each other and meet. Salomé captures their coincidence with what she calls a "duality as unity and unity as duality."1 Such a paradox of a unity d…
The Simultaneity of Media
Simultaneity of Media:Kafka’s Literary Screen Bianca Theisen A train appears at the horizon; we see the locomotive, expanding in our field of vision, suddenly emerging in front of us in a split-second and coming to a stop at the station; a conductor hurries to open the coach doors, passengers get off the train, rearrange their clothing and carry their luggage: their movements seem spontaneous and unintentional. And thus, as Henri Clouzot conclude…
Dancing With Words
With its puzzling hypothesis that marionettes dance with more grace than human dancers, Kleist's essay "On The Marionette Theatre" outlines a mechanistic aesthetics of dance which departs from late eighteenth-century notions of dance as a natural expression of passions, as for instance Noverre had promoted them in his attempt to sever ballet and pantomime from their ties to comedy and commedia del'arte and to reform ballet through recourse to ant…
Art (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)