Necia Chronister
Biographic Data
| ID | 1639710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Necia Chronister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Necia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chronister |
| SIGNATURE | CHRONISTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck (review)
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Juli Zeh has emerged as an enfant terrible of the German literary scene. As an author, public intellectual, and honorary judge at the constitutional court of Brandenburg, Zeh has publicly and repeatedly voiced opposition to governmental measures designed to mitigate the spread of the virus. Citing apparent harm to individual liberties, she has objected to mask mandates, vaccine requirements, lockdowns…
New Year by Juli Zeh
Reviewed by: New Year by Juli Zeh Necia Chronister Juli Zeh New Year Trans. Alta L. Price. London. World Editions. 2021. 288 pages. THERE ARE PLACES we feel drawn to without knowing why—landscapes that beckon, cityscapes that call. For some people, it's a travel destination they've always dreamed of. For others, it's a place they find themselves returning to time and time again. For a few, it's a place they never expected to be, but once there, t…
Jenny ErpenbeckNot a Novel
Books in Review Jenny Erpenbeck Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces Trans. Kurt Beals. New York. New Directions. 2020. 212 pages. JENNY ERPENBECK’s fictional worlds offer us glimpses of what exists below the surface—of land, of water, of consciousness . In her novel Visitation (Heimsuchung , 2008), for example, the new tenants of a countryside home near Berlin are puzzled to find a crate filled with porcelain while digging a trench on the property. H…
Situating the Self in Historical Narratives
This essay examines the ways in which two contemporary German texts, Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders and Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, situate silent characters at the centre of world-historical events of the twentieth century. These novels employ multi-perspectival and relational modes of narration to foreground the collaborative effort of narrating such central characters and thus the histories they represent. To investigate these silent ch…
Conceiving of a Realfictional Body
Scholarship on embodied reading has conventionally assumed a one‐way relationship between the fictional world and the body. Bodies respond to representation—affectively, emotionally, and/or sexually—and are not typically considered to have an active role in the construction of the text itself. However, there is an emerging trend in German literary studies toward reexamining the material body and its relationship to language. New material feminist…
The Enduring Impermanence of Jenny Erpenbeck
For Jenny Erpenbeck, nothing lasts forever, not home, not the rituals that connect us to previous generations, not even death. Even her writing style celebrates this impermanence
German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
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German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Conceiving of a Realfictional Body
Scholarship on embodied reading has conventionally assumed a one‐way relationship between the fictional world and the body. Bodies respond to representation—affectively, emotionally, and/or sexually—and are not typically considered to have an active role in the construction of the text itself. However, there is an emerging trend in German literary studies toward reexamining the material body and its relationship to language. New material feminist…
The Enduring Impermanence of Jenny Erpenbeck
For Jenny Erpenbeck, nothing lasts forever, not home, not the rituals that connect us to previous generations, not even death. Even her writing style celebrates this impermanence
Situating the Self in Historical Narratives
This essay examines the ways in which two contemporary German texts, Uwe Timm’s Am Beispiel meines Bruders and Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, situate silent characters at the centre of world-historical events of the twentieth century. These novels employ multi-perspectival and relational modes of narration to foreground the collaborative effort of narrating such central characters and thus the histories they represent. To investigate these silent ch…
Jenny ErpenbeckNot a Novel
Books in Review Jenny Erpenbeck Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces Trans. Kurt Beals. New York. New Directions. 2020. 212 pages. JENNY ERPENBECK’s fictional worlds offer us glimpses of what exists below the surface—of land, of water, of consciousness . In her novel Visitation (Heimsuchung , 2008), for example, the new tenants of a countryside home near Berlin are puzzled to find a crate filled with porcelain while digging a trench on the property. H…
New Year by Juli Zeh
Reviewed by: New Year by Juli Zeh Necia Chronister Juli Zeh New Year Trans. Alta L. Price. London. World Editions. 2021. 288 pages. THERE ARE PLACES we feel drawn to without knowing why—landscapes that beckon, cityscapes that call. For some people, it's a travel destination they've always dreamed of. For others, it's a place they find themselves returning to time and time again. For a few, it's a place they never expected to be, but once there, t…
Introduction
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Juli Zeh has emerged as an enfant terrible of the German literary scene. As an author, public intellectual, and honorary judge at the constitutional court of Brandenburg, Zeh has publicly and repeatedly voiced opposition to governmental measures designed to mitigate the spread of the virus. Citing apparent harm to individual liberties, she has objected to mask mandates, vaccine requirements, lockdowns…
Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck (review)
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