Julia Hell
Biographic Data
| ID | 185762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Hell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hell |
| SIGNATURE | HELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"Introduction to "Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A Controversy
This introduction situates the 1966 essays by Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger in the context of decolonization, taking into account Gary Wilder's and Michael Rothberg's reframing of the immediate postwar decades. More precisely, the introduction discusses Weiss's and Enzensberger's texts as engaging Frantz Fanon's "On Violence," published in Kursbuch, together with Enzensberger's "Europäische Peripherie" (1965), the article to which Weis…
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
On the Way to the London Mithraeum: Freud's Archaeo-Analysis and the Habsburg Empire's Neo-Roman Mimesis
An act of reconstruction and recontextualization, this article reframes Freud's reflections on archaeology and Imperial Rome from the perspective of the deep history of European empires' neo-Roman imitations. I propose to read Freud's thinking and writing as modes of analysis attuned to the reality of Europe's imperial histories. That is, a form of analysis that consciously—and, at times, unconsciously—draws on and works against the discursive or…
A period of “wild and fierce fanaticism”: Populism, theo-political militarism, and the crisis of US hegemony
Demolition Artists: Icono-Graphy, Tanks, and Scenarios of (Post-)Communist Subjectivity in Works by Neo Rauch, Heiner Müller, Durs Grünbein, and Uwe Tellkamp
The author proposes post-imperial analysis as a new research agenda for the study of (post-)GDR literature and painting. The article models this kind of analysis with respect to works by the authors listed in the title, focusing on the representation/destruction of the Soviet tank as an object embodying imperial sovereignty. More specifically, the author explores a series of scopic scenarios that dramatize the confrontation with Soviet tanks, dra…
Ruinopolis: Post-Imperial Theory and Learning from Las Vegas
This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its self-presentation in American popular culture. This analysis of Las Vegas as ruinopolis draws attention to the ruin sites of the city and its hinterland,…
Endings and New Beginnings: Ruins and Heritage
The title of this special issue of Germanic Review is “Endings and New Beginnings: Ruins and Heritage.” Let me begin my introduction with a quotation from The Ruins of Detroit, the disturbing book
Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice
In this article, I offer a literary-critical reading of Modernity and the Holocaust, arguing that Bauman’s non-Hobbesian ethics is linked to a form of Orphic authorship. I contextualize this reading with a study of three literary authors: W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss and Janina Bauman, and their respective versions of this post-Holocaust authorship. At stake is the drama of the forbidden gaze, the moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice, killin…
Katechon: Carl Schmitt's Imperial Theology and the Ruins of the Future
The author proposes an imperial genealogy of Schmitt's concept of the katechon. Engaging debates about the role of the concept in Schmitt's political theology, the author reads the katechon as a scenario of imperial ruin gazing, tracing its emergence in essays about World War II, which focused on the theme of imperial rise and decline. With the katechon, Schmitt re-conceptualized Reich/empire/nomos as the inextricable link between beginning and e…
Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline
(2009). Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 84-93
Ruins Travel: Orphic Journeys through 1940s Germany
The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz; George Steinmetz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 147–184. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation George S…
The Cultural Logics of the Berlin Republic
Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic
(2005). Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 74-95
Eyes Wide Shut: German Post-Holocaust Authorship
When Durs Grtinbein received Germany's prestigious Biichner Prize in 1995, thirty-five years after Paul Celan, he entitled his acceptance speech Den K6rper zerbrechen.l In their dialogue with Btichner, Celan and Grtinbein both touch on the topic of the artist's gaze. Celan draws attention to a passage in Lenz where Btichner's protagonist expresses his desire to be a head of the Medusa. According to Celan, for Biichner art touched on something unc…
Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig
(2002). Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 279-303
Loyal Dissidents and Stasi Poets: Sascha Anderson, Christa Wolf, and the Incomplete Project of GDR Research
Sascha Anderson, Sascha Anderson (Cologne, 2002)Jörg Magenau, Christa Wolf. Eine Biographie (Berlin, 2002)Christa Wolf, Leibhaftig. Erzahlung (Munich, 2002
Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
Post-Fascist Fantasies
History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989
Research Article| October 01 1997 History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989 Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (4): 911–947. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-4-911 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julia Hell; History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: German…
Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival
Research Article| July 01 1995 Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 747–772. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-747 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julia Hell; Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German …
Dossier: Socialist Realism and East German Modernism—Another Historians' Debate
(1994). Dossier: Socialist Realism and East German Modernism—Another Historians' Debate. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 36-44
Christa Wolf's Divided Heaven and the Collapse of (Socialist) Realism
Hispano-Arabic Poetry and Its Relations with the Old Provencal Troubadours
Katechon: Carl Schmitt's Imperial Theology and the Ruins of the Future
The author proposes an imperial genealogy of Schmitt's concept of the katechon. Engaging debates about the role of the concept in Schmitt's political theology, the author reads the katechon as a scenario of imperial ruin gazing, tracing its emergence in essays about World War II, which focused on the theme of imperial rise and decline. With the katechon, Schmitt re-conceptualized Reich/empire/nomos as the inextricable link between beginning and e…
The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz; George Steinmetz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 147–184. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation George S…
A period of “wild and fierce fanaticism”: Populism, theo-political militarism, and the crisis of US hegemony
Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice
In this article, I offer a literary-critical reading of Modernity and the Holocaust, arguing that Bauman’s non-Hobbesian ethics is linked to a form of Orphic authorship. I contextualize this reading with a study of three literary authors: W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss and Janina Bauman, and their respective versions of this post-Holocaust authorship. At stake is the drama of the forbidden gaze, the moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice, killin…
Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline
(2009). Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 84-93
Eyes Wide Shut: German Post-Holocaust Authorship
When Durs Grtinbein received Germany's prestigious Biichner Prize in 1995, thirty-five years after Paul Celan, he entitled his acceptance speech Den K6rper zerbrechen.l In their dialogue with Btichner, Celan and Grtinbein both touch on the topic of the artist's gaze. Celan draws attention to a passage in Lenz where Btichner's protagonist expresses his desire to be a head of the Medusa. According to Celan, for Biichner art touched on something unc…
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
Ruinopolis: Post-Imperial Theory and Learning from Las Vegas
This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its self-presentation in American popular culture. This analysis of Las Vegas as ruinopolis draws attention to the ruin sites of the city and its hinterland,…
Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic
(2005). Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 74-95
Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig
(2002). Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 279-303
Hispano-Arabic Poetry and Its Relations with the Old Provencal Troubadours
Dossier: Socialist Realism and East German Modernism—Another Historians' Debate
(1994). Dossier: Socialist Realism and East German Modernism—Another Historians' Debate. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 36-44
Christa Wolf's Divided Heaven and the Collapse of (Socialist) Realism
Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival
Research Article| July 01 1995 Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German Novel of Arrival Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 747–772. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-747 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julia Hell; Soft Porn, Kitsch, and Post-Fascist Bodies: The East German …
History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989
Research Article| October 01 1997 History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989 Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (4): 911–947. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-4-911 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julia Hell; History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: German…
Post-Fascist Fantasies
Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig
(2002). Wendebilder: Neo Rauch and Wolfgang Hilbig. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 279-303
Loyal Dissidents and Stasi Poets: Sascha Anderson, Christa Wolf, and the Incomplete Project of GDR Research
Sascha Anderson, Sascha Anderson (Cologne, 2002)Jörg Magenau, Christa Wolf. Eine Biographie (Berlin, 2002)Christa Wolf, Leibhaftig. Erzahlung (Munich, 2002
Eyes Wide Shut: German Post-Holocaust Authorship
When Durs Grtinbein received Germany's prestigious Biichner Prize in 1995, thirty-five years after Paul Celan, he entitled his acceptance speech Den K6rper zerbrechen.l In their dialogue with Btichner, Celan and Grtinbein both touch on the topic of the artist's gaze. Celan draws attention to a passage in Lenz where Btichner's protagonist expresses his desire to be a head of the Medusa. According to Celan, for Biichner art touched on something unc…
The Cultural Logics of the Berlin Republic
Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic
(2005). Unification Effects: Imaginary Landscapes of the Berlin Republic. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 74-95
The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz; George Steinmetz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Julia Hell Julia Hell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 147–184. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation George S…
Ruins Travel: Orphic Journeys through 1940s Germany
Katechon: Carl Schmitt's Imperial Theology and the Ruins of the Future
The author proposes an imperial genealogy of Schmitt's concept of the katechon. Engaging debates about the role of the concept in Schmitt's political theology, the author reads the katechon as a scenario of imperial ruin gazing, tracing its emergence in essays about World War II, which focused on the theme of imperial rise and decline. With the katechon, Schmitt re-conceptualized Reich/empire/nomos as the inextricable link between beginning and e…
Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline
(2009). Briefly Noted: The Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 84-93
Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice
In this article, I offer a literary-critical reading of Modernity and the Holocaust, arguing that Bauman’s non-Hobbesian ethics is linked to a form of Orphic authorship. I contextualize this reading with a study of three literary authors: W.G. Sebald, Peter Weiss and Janina Bauman, and their respective versions of this post-Holocaust authorship. At stake is the drama of the forbidden gaze, the moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice, killin…
Endings and New Beginnings: Ruins and Heritage
The title of this special issue of Germanic Review is “Endings and New Beginnings: Ruins and Heritage.” Let me begin my introduction with a quotation from The Ruins of Detroit, the disturbing book
Demolition Artists: Icono-Graphy, Tanks, and Scenarios of (Post-)Communist Subjectivity in Works by Neo Rauch, Heiner Müller, Durs Grünbein, and Uwe Tellkamp
The author proposes post-imperial analysis as a new research agenda for the study of (post-)GDR literature and painting. The article models this kind of analysis with respect to works by the authors listed in the title, focusing on the representation/destruction of the Soviet tank as an object embodying imperial sovereignty. More specifically, the author explores a series of scopic scenarios that dramatize the confrontation with Soviet tanks, dra…
Ruinopolis: Post-Imperial Theory and Learning from Las Vegas
This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its self-presentation in American popular culture. This analysis of Las Vegas as ruinopolis draws attention to the ruin sites of the city and its hinterland,…
A period of “wild and fierce fanaticism”: Populism, theo-political militarism, and the crisis of US hegemony
On the Way to the London Mithraeum: Freud's Archaeo-Analysis and the Habsburg Empire's Neo-Roman Mimesis
An act of reconstruction and recontextualization, this article reframes Freud's reflections on archaeology and Imperial Rome from the perspective of the deep history of European empires' neo-Roman imitations. I propose to read Freud's thinking and writing as modes of analysis attuned to the reality of Europe's imperial histories. That is, a form of analysis that consciously—and, at times, unconsciously—draws on and works against the discursive or…
"Introduction to "Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A Controversy
This introduction situates the 1966 essays by Peter Weiss and Hans Magnus Enzensberger in the context of decolonization, taking into account Gary Wilder's and Michael Rothberg's reframing of the immediate postwar decades. More precisely, the introduction discusses Weiss's and Enzensberger's texts as engaging Frantz Fanon's "On Violence," published in Kursbuch, together with Enzensberger's "Europäische Peripherie" (1965), the article to which Weis…
Introduction: Peter Weiss and The Aesthetics of Resistance
In this introduction the editors first trace the reception of Peter Weiss's Aesthetics of Resistance in (West) Germany and the United States. Focusing on the relation between politics and aesthetics, some critics characterized this relation as fraught, arguing that the novel's supposedly outdated politics ultimately rendered it obsolete. Others approached the novel as a writing experiment articulating politics and aesthetics in tense but producti…
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