Patrizia C Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 1179052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrizia C Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrizia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Edge of the Page
This essay examines Alfred Polgar's engagement with the literary miniature by situating it within the phenomenal growth of commercial journalism in Weimar Germany and the Austrian Republic. Drawing on reflections on the small form developed by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, this paper reconstructs Polgar's practice of engaged writing, which enjoins an ornamental style and imagistic rhetoric forged in the tradition …
Reading the Visible
Reading the Visible:Else Lasker-Schüler's Early Prose Texts and the Small Form Patrizia McBride (bio) When Kurt Hiller said of Else Lasker-Schüler that her work lacked "das Mentale," that is, a level of reflexivity that exceeds merely sensual and sentimental expression, he was trying to set the record straight after a disastrous encounter with Wieland Herzfelde, who had slapped him in the face at the Café des Westens in 1915 for making disparagin…
The Chatter of the Visible
Patrizia McBride's study, The Chatter of the Visible, examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers an historicized re-appraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show tha…
Konstruktion als Bildung
This essay juxtaposes the understanding of Konstruktion developed within German Constructivism to the humanist notion of Bildung that framed debates on the Bildungsroman and the novel at the beginning of the twentieth century. Far from refuting the project of Bildung, Konstruktion actualizes some of its central tenets while grappling with the questions of temporality and futurity that bedeviled the idea of Bildung. After tracing the ways in which…
Narrative Resemblance
This article examines the discourse and practice of photography enacted in Weimar Germany's modernist photobook as a testing ground for the medium's narrative potential. This project involved the attempt to stake out an aesthetics that exploited photography's aptitude for exact reproduction while uncoupling it from a claim to truthfulness. In tracing the reflection of key theorists of the visual (Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, László Moholy…
Learning to See in Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen
This essay examines Irmgard Keun's novel Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932) against the backdrop of Weimar‐era discourses on the emancipatory potential of vision. While the narrative's thematization of vision has been productively analyzed from the perspective of feminist and film theory, less attention has been paid to its ties to contemporary discourses concerned with retooling a vision enhanced by new technologies like film into an instrument of …
The Paradox of Aesthetic Discourse
Narrative Resemblance
This article examines the discourse and practice of photography enacted in Weimar Germany's modernist photobook as a testing ground for the medium's narrative potential. This project involved the attempt to stake out an aesthetics that exploited photography's aptitude for exact reproduction while uncoupling it from a claim to truthfulness. In tracing the reflection of key theorists of the visual (Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, László Moholy…
The Paradox of Aesthetic Discourse
Learning to See in Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen
This essay examines Irmgard Keun's novel Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932) against the backdrop of Weimar‐era discourses on the emancipatory potential of vision. While the narrative's thematization of vision has been productively analyzed from the perspective of feminist and film theory, less attention has been paid to its ties to contemporary discourses concerned with retooling a vision enhanced by new technologies like film into an instrument of …
Narrative Resemblance
This article examines the discourse and practice of photography enacted in Weimar Germany's modernist photobook as a testing ground for the medium's narrative potential. This project involved the attempt to stake out an aesthetics that exploited photography's aptitude for exact reproduction while uncoupling it from a claim to truthfulness. In tracing the reflection of key theorists of the visual (Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, László Moholy…
Konstruktion als Bildung
This essay juxtaposes the understanding of Konstruktion developed within German Constructivism to the humanist notion of Bildung that framed debates on the Bildungsroman and the novel at the beginning of the twentieth century. Far from refuting the project of Bildung, Konstruktion actualizes some of its central tenets while grappling with the questions of temporality and futurity that bedeviled the idea of Bildung. After tracing the ways in which…
The Chatter of the Visible
Patrizia McBride's study, The Chatter of the Visible, examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers an historicized re-appraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show tha…
Reading the Visible
Reading the Visible:Else Lasker-Schüler's Early Prose Texts and the Small Form Patrizia McBride (bio) When Kurt Hiller said of Else Lasker-Schüler that her work lacked "das Mentale," that is, a level of reflexivity that exceeds merely sensual and sentimental expression, he was trying to set the record straight after a disastrous encounter with Wieland Herzfelde, who had slapped him in the face at the Café des Westens in 1915 for making disparagin…
The Edge of the Page
This essay examines Alfred Polgar's engagement with the literary miniature by situating it within the phenomenal growth of commercial journalism in Weimar Germany and the Austrian Republic. Drawing on reflections on the small form developed by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, this paper reconstructs Polgar's practice of engaged writing, which enjoins an ornamental style and imagistic rhetoric forged in the tradition …
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · German (2 works)