John Pizer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1293391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pizer |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Pizer |
| SIGNATURE | PIZER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Weltliteratur in der longue durée. Herausgegeben von Schamma Schahadat und Annette Werberger. Leiden: Brill/Fink, 2021. xxiii + 439 Seiten + 3 s/w und 1 farbige Abbildungen. $90.00 gebunden oder eBook
Weltliteratur in der longue durée . Herausgegeben Von Schamma Schahadat und Annette Werberger. Leiden: Brill/Fink, 2021. xxiii + 439 Seiten + 3 s/w und 1 farbige Abbildungen. $90.00 gebunden oder eBook. There have been numerous studies devoted to the world-literature paradigm since the
From Allusive Metaphysical Silence to Overt Social Critique: The War Child in Prose Texts by Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann's early story Die Karawane und die Auferstehung (1949) takes place in a desert‐like realm of the dead. The characters can perceive each other as they wander aimlessly, but cannot speak. Two figures are children: a girl who died of consumption, and a boy who spent his brief life in an orphanage. Key elements evoke both as war children. At the conclusion, droning bells prompt the boy to attempt telepathically to convey this ringin…
Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of Transcultural Narratives
Disinclination/Appropriation/Poetization: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Evolving Engagement with Poland and Polish Galicia before, during, and after the Great War
Hugovon Hofmannsthal's attitude toward Polish Galicia and Congress Poland underwent an evolution during the years immediately before, during, and after the FirstWorldWar. While in Galicia in 1896 and 1898 for military service, he found conditions squalid and depressing. During the war, Hofmannsthal served as military correspondent and reported from the Forest Carpathians. His reports reflect an appropriative attitude toward the region. Hofmannsth…
Turning to and away from the Highest Canonical Authority: A Reexamination of Thomas Bernhard’s Reception of Adalbert Stifter in Frost
In the aftermath of World War II, both Austria and Germany drew on their most canonical classical authors for didactic and public relations goals. In the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Goethe was the central cultural figure utilized for these purposes, while in Austria Stifter played a leading role. This essay begins by contrasting these respective national instrumentalizations of cultural patrimony. The impact of…
Skewering the Enlightenment: Alexander von Humboldt and Immanuel Kant as fictional characters
Recent German fiction has given an imaginative nuance to the general postmodern critique of the Enlightenment by parodying some of its leading adherents. This essay analyzes two of these works: Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt, a fictional biography of the intertwined lives of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß, and Klaas Huizing's novel Das Ding an sich, a fantastic tale which takes a real-life…
The German Response to Kant's Essay on Perpetual Peace: Herder Contra the Romantics
The author analyzes the three most widely discussed German early romantic responses to Kant's essay Zum ewigen Frieden, composed by Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and Görres. Whereas most scholarly treatments of these responses argue that they go beyond Kant in advocating an even greater degree of cosmopolitan unity, freedom, and democracy in Europe after the French Revolution than did Kant, the author shows how Fichte, Schlegel, and Görres betray a…
From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The Development of Elias Canetti’s Character Sketches
Research Article| January 01 2007 From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The Development of Elias Canetti’s Character Sketches John Pizer John Pizer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (1-2): 166–182. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Pizer; From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The …
Goethe Yearbook 13
Moving the Divan Beyond Orientalism: Rafik Schami's Instrumentalization of Goethe
Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has in recent years become as controversial among Germanists for its general exculpation of Germany from the practice named in the title as it was in the immediate years following its publication among scholars of French and English culture for its attribution of academic imperialism to many of these countries' leading men of letters. Scholars such as Andrea FuchsSumiyoshi, Nina Berman, and Susanne Zantop have dis…
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
German Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig. Schmidt and Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should, above all, strive for psychological and aesthetic totality in their narrative representations, turning away from the Romantic fantastic but also avoiding the fragmentary approach to the port…
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
Melancholie: Figuren und Orte einer Stimmung
The Disintegration of Libussa
Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought
Maulwurfsarchaologie: Zum Verhaltnis von Geschichte und Anthropologie in Wilhelm Raabes historischen Erzahltexten
Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought
Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe, 1820-1895
Reconstellating the Shards of the Text: On Walter Benjamin's German/Jewish Memory
Sinnenlust des Beschreibens: Mimetische und allegorische Gestaltung in der Prosa Walter Benjamins
Oskar Goldberg. Der Mythische Experimentalwissenschaftler. Ein Verdrangtes Kapitel Judischer Geschichte
Double and Other: C.F. Meyer's Der Heilige
In his seminal book Orientalism, Edward Said traces the evolution of that phenomenon as an academic discourse that places the Orient under the sign of an exotic but fundamentally negative alterity. This psychic distancing from the Orient is performed in order to pave the way for its colonialization by the West. Said affirms that the Orient has almost always been for Europe one of its deepest and most recurring images of the (Said 1). Just two pag…
From a Death in Venice to a Death in Rome: On Wolfgang Koeppen's Critical Ironization of Thomas Mann
(1993). From a Death in Venice to a Death in Rome: On Wolfgang Koeppen's Critical Ironization of Thomas Mann. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 98-107
Jameson's Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Utopian
Fredric Jameson's 1990 monograph on Theodor W. Adomo, Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic has generally met with harsh criticism ever since it first appeared. Peter Osborne's article, published recently in this journal, takes Jameson to task for willfully misappropriating and talsely characterizing Adomo's dominant epistemological categories (non-identity, mimesis, natural history, etc.) in the service of a single-minded att…
Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of Transcultural Narratives
The German Response to Kant's Essay on Perpetual Peace: Herder Contra the Romantics
The author analyzes the three most widely discussed German early romantic responses to Kant's essay Zum ewigen Frieden, composed by Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and Görres. Whereas most scholarly treatments of these responses argue that they go beyond Kant in advocating an even greater degree of cosmopolitan unity, freedom, and democracy in Europe after the French Revolution than did Kant, the author shows how Fichte, Schlegel, and Görres betray a…
The Classical Facade: A Nonclassical Reading of Goethe's Classicism
Goethe's "Urphänomen" and Benjamin's "Ursprung: A Reconsideration
From a Death in Venice to a Death in Rome: On Wolfgang Koeppen's Critical Ironization of Thomas Mann
(1993). From a Death in Venice to a Death in Rome: On Wolfgang Koeppen's Critical Ironization of Thomas Mann. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 98-107
Jameson's Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Utopian
Fredric Jameson's 1990 monograph on Theodor W. Adomo, Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic has generally met with harsh criticism ever since it first appeared. Peter Osborne's article, published recently in this journal, takes Jameson to task for willfully misappropriating and talsely characterizing Adomo's dominant epistemological categories (non-identity, mimesis, natural history, etc.) in the service of a single-minded att…
Sinnenlust des Beschreibens: Mimetische und allegorische Gestaltung in der Prosa Walter Benjamins
Oskar Goldberg. Der Mythische Experimentalwissenschaftler. Ein Verdrangtes Kapitel Judischer Geschichte
Double and Other: C.F. Meyer's Der Heilige
In his seminal book Orientalism, Edward Said traces the evolution of that phenomenon as an academic discourse that places the Orient under the sign of an exotic but fundamentally negative alterity. This psychic distancing from the Orient is performed in order to pave the way for its colonialization by the West. Said affirms that the Orient has almost always been for Europe one of its deepest and most recurring images of the (Said 1). Just two pag…
Reconstellating the Shards of the Text: On Walter Benjamin's German/Jewish Memory
Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe, 1820-1895
Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought
Maulwurfsarchaologie: Zum Verhaltnis von Geschichte und Anthropologie in Wilhelm Raabes historischen Erzahltexten
Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thought
Melancholie: Figuren und Orte einer Stimmung
The Disintegration of Libussa
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
Ego-Alter Ego: Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
German Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig. Schmidt and Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should, above all, strive for psychological and aesthetic totality in their narrative representations, turning away from the Romantic fantastic but also avoiding the fragmentary approach to the port…
Goethe Yearbook 13
Moving the Divan Beyond Orientalism: Rafik Schami's Instrumentalization of Goethe
Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has in recent years become as controversial among Germanists for its general exculpation of Germany from the practice named in the title as it was in the immediate years following its publication among scholars of French and English culture for its attribution of academic imperialism to many of these countries' leading men of letters. Scholars such as Andrea FuchsSumiyoshi, Nina Berman, and Susanne Zantop have dis…
The German Response to Kant's Essay on Perpetual Peace: Herder Contra the Romantics
The author analyzes the three most widely discussed German early romantic responses to Kant's essay Zum ewigen Frieden, composed by Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and Görres. Whereas most scholarly treatments of these responses argue that they go beyond Kant in advocating an even greater degree of cosmopolitan unity, freedom, and democracy in Europe after the French Revolution than did Kant, the author shows how Fichte, Schlegel, and Görres betray a…
From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The Development of Elias Canetti’s Character Sketches
Research Article| January 01 2007 From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The Development of Elias Canetti’s Character Sketches John Pizer John Pizer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (1-2): 166–182. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Pizer; From Jean de la Bruyère to John Aubrey and Beyond: The …
Skewering the Enlightenment: Alexander von Humboldt and Immanuel Kant as fictional characters
Recent German fiction has given an imaginative nuance to the general postmodern critique of the Enlightenment by parodying some of its leading adherents. This essay analyzes two of these works: Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt, a fictional biography of the intertwined lives of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß, and Klaas Huizing's novel Das Ding an sich, a fantastic tale which takes a real-life…
Turning to and away from the Highest Canonical Authority: A Reexamination of Thomas Bernhard’s Reception of Adalbert Stifter in Frost
In the aftermath of World War II, both Austria and Germany drew on their most canonical classical authors for didactic and public relations goals. In the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Goethe was the central cultural figure utilized for these purposes, while in Austria Stifter played a leading role. This essay begins by contrasting these respective national instrumentalizations of cultural patrimony. The impact of…
Disinclination/Appropriation/Poetization: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Evolving Engagement with Poland and Polish Galicia before, during, and after the Great War
Hugovon Hofmannsthal's attitude toward Polish Galicia and Congress Poland underwent an evolution during the years immediately before, during, and after the FirstWorldWar. While in Galicia in 1896 and 1898 for military service, he found conditions squalid and depressing. During the war, Hofmannsthal served as military correspondent and reported from the Forest Carpathians. His reports reflect an appropriative attitude toward the region. Hofmannsth…
From Allusive Metaphysical Silence to Overt Social Critique: The War Child in Prose Texts by Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann's early story Die Karawane und die Auferstehung (1949) takes place in a desert‐like realm of the dead. The characters can perceive each other as they wander aimlessly, but cannot speak. Two figures are children: a girl who died of consumption, and a boy who spent his brief life in an orphanage. Key elements evoke both as war children. At the conclusion, droning bells prompt the boy to attempt telepathically to convey this ringin…
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