Andreas Gailus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Gailus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gailus |
| SIGNATURE | GAILUS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moritz Baßler. Deutsche Erzählprosa 1850–1950
Brains
The literary writings of the young Gottfried Benn are replete with images of anatomical dismemberment and biological decay while pushing the limits of linguistic expression. The article suggests that this confluence of naturalism and avant-garde experimentation is the result of Benn's critical engagement with the modern life sciences, and in particular with the discourses of medicine and psychology. The article focuses on Benn's so-called Rönne n…
How Literature Thinks
Forms of Life
This article explores the relationship between Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and contemporary writings about natural organisms, including Goethe's own botanical studies. The article argues that Goethe's novel should be read as a meditation on the disunity of biological and human form. The defining feature of human as opposed to biological life is the former's dependence on representation, which makes human form both open-ended a…
Language Unmoored
Situating Kleist's novella in the context of contemporary philosophical responses to the French Revolution (Kant, Hegel), this article suggests that Kleist's text is unique in taking revolution not merely as its theme but also as its mode of presentation. At the core of revolution is the loss of referential stability and the realization that words are not anchored in an extra-linguistic world of facts and objects but are held in place by open-end…
Passions of the Sign
A Case of Individuality
Andreas Gailus, A Case of Individuality: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Magazine for Empirical Psychology, New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 67-105
A Case of Individuality
Andreas Gailus, A Case of Individuality: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Magazine for Empirical Psychology, New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 67-105
Brains
The literary writings of the young Gottfried Benn are replete with images of anatomical dismemberment and biological decay while pushing the limits of linguistic expression. The article suggests that this confluence of naturalism and avant-garde experimentation is the result of Benn's critical engagement with the modern life sciences, and in particular with the discourses of medicine and psychology. The article focuses on Benn's so-called Rönne n…
A Case of Individuality
Andreas Gailus, A Case of Individuality: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Magazine for Empirical Psychology, New German Critique, No. 79, Special Issue on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought (Winter, 2000), pp. 67-105
Passions of the Sign
Language Unmoored
Situating Kleist's novella in the context of contemporary philosophical responses to the French Revolution (Kant, Hegel), this article suggests that Kleist's text is unique in taking revolution not merely as its theme but also as its mode of presentation. At the core of revolution is the loss of referential stability and the realization that words are not anchored in an extra-linguistic world of facts and objects but are held in place by open-end…
Forms of Life
This article explores the relationship between Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and contemporary writings about natural organisms, including Goethe's own botanical studies. The article argues that Goethe's novel should be read as a meditation on the disunity of biological and human form. The defining feature of human as opposed to biological life is the former's dependence on representation, which makes human form both open-ended a…
How Literature Thinks
Moritz Baßler. Deutsche Erzählprosa 1850–1950
Brains
The literary writings of the young Gottfried Benn are replete with images of anatomical dismemberment and biological decay while pushing the limits of linguistic expression. The article suggests that this confluence of naturalism and avant-garde experimentation is the result of Benn's critical engagement with the modern life sciences, and in particular with the discourses of medicine and psychology. The article focuses on Benn's so-called Rönne n…
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