Ian Ellison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3088078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Ellison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellison |
| SIGNATURE | ELLISON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1769-7724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Illustrationen zu Franz Kafka, a visual art exhibition curated by Sebastian Schmidt, at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Germany, from 12 October 2024–12 January 2025
The afterlife of Franz Kafka's writing has proved strikingly visual. For more than a century, artists have returned to Kafka not only to illustrate his work in the conventional sense, but to test how far visual form can approach literature built on delay, opacity and juridical menace. Kafka was famously opposed to illustrations of his work. Nowhere is this clearer than in his correspondence with his publisher over ‘Die Verwandlung' (‘The Metamorp…
Franz Kafka, Roberto Bolaño, and the “Artificial Intelligence” of Posthumous Authorship
This article undertakes a comparative reading of the lives and legacies of Franz Kafka and Roberto Bolaño in order to explore the nature of their authorship after their deaths. To this end, this article considers the implications for the construction of posthumous authorship as a category of reception and production if it were viewed metaphorically as a form of artificial intelligence. This article then proceeds to undertakes a critical act of fa…
The Late Arrival of ‘Der Deutsche Proust’: Translating a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu Into German
Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu , an unparalleled chronicle of European modernity's transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, was published between 1913 and 1927. It was not until the 1950s, however, that a complete German translation of the novel appeared. Earlier attempts did not get far: Rudolph Schottlaender's 1925 translation of the first volume was critically panned, and the subsequent translation of the next tw…
Victoria Kahn, The Trouble with Literature
World Literature and Literary Afterlife
Literary works and their authors seldom belong solely to the historical age and part of the world in which they were written. But how do some begin life anew in other languages, other cultural contexts, and in other literary marketplaces, while many do not? Does a distinctive narrative, combined with authorial flair, render certain works susceptible to creative adaptation, imaginative retranslation, or extensive allusion by other writers? And whe…
Sandra Richter, Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Modernist Time Ecology - Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg is the quintessential modern Zeitroman (time novel) and its central question, formulated by its anonymous narrator at the start of its seventh and final chapter as the
Melancholy cosmopolitanism: Reflections on a genre of European literary fiction
This essay considers how various European novels written and published around the turn of the millennium may be grouped together as an historically and geographically contingent literary genre, while also reflecting on the implications of this. In doing so, this essay coins the term ‘melancholy cosmopolitanism’ to best describe this genre of literary works. Ultimately, this genre suggests, first of all, that the sense of melancholy obsolescence a…
Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life University of Iowa Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 200. ISBN-13 978-1-60938-675-7 Ian Ellison, ZEIT-Stiftung Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach “What is the good of the arts if they’re interchangeable?” Margaret Schlegel asks in E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End, responding in exasperation to her sister Helen’s persis…
B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
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B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
World Literature and Literary Afterlife
Literary works and their authors seldom belong solely to the historical age and part of the world in which they were written. But how do some begin life anew in other languages, other cultural contexts, and in other literary marketplaces, while many do not? Does a distinctive narrative, combined with authorial flair, render certain works susceptible to creative adaptation, imaginative retranslation, or extensive allusion by other writers? And whe…
Sandra Richter, Eine Weltgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Modernist Time Ecology - Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg is the quintessential modern Zeitroman (time novel) and its central question, formulated by its anonymous narrator at the start of its seventh and final chapter as the
Melancholy cosmopolitanism: Reflections on a genre of European literary fiction
This essay considers how various European novels written and published around the turn of the millennium may be grouped together as an historically and geographically contingent literary genre, while also reflecting on the implications of this. In doing so, this essay coins the term ‘melancholy cosmopolitanism’ to best describe this genre of literary works. Ultimately, this genre suggests, first of all, that the sense of melancholy obsolescence a…
Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life
Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life University of Iowa Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 200. ISBN-13 978-1-60938-675-7 Ian Ellison, ZEIT-Stiftung Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach “What is the good of the arts if they’re interchangeable?” Margaret Schlegel asks in E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End, responding in exasperation to her sister Helen’s persis…
Victoria Kahn, The Trouble with Literature
The Late Arrival of ‘Der Deutsche Proust’: Translating a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu Into German
Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu , an unparalleled chronicle of European modernity's transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, was published between 1913 and 1927. It was not until the 1950s, however, that a complete German translation of the novel appeared. Earlier attempts did not get far: Rudolph Schottlaender's 1925 translation of the first volume was critically panned, and the subsequent translation of the next tw…
Franz Kafka, Roberto Bolaño, and the “Artificial Intelligence” of Posthumous Authorship
This article undertakes a comparative reading of the lives and legacies of Franz Kafka and Roberto Bolaño in order to explore the nature of their authorship after their deaths. To this end, this article considers the implications for the construction of posthumous authorship as a category of reception and production if it were viewed metaphorically as a form of artificial intelligence. This article then proceeds to undertakes a critical act of fa…
Illustrationen zu Franz Kafka, a visual art exhibition curated by Sebastian Schmidt, at Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Germany, from 12 October 2024–12 January 2025
The afterlife of Franz Kafka's writing has proved strikingly visual. For more than a century, artists have returned to Kafka not only to illustrate his work in the conventional sense, but to test how far visual form can approach literature built on delay, opacity and juridical menace. Kafka was famously opposed to illustrations of his work. Nowhere is this clearer than in his correspondence with his publisher over ‘Die Verwandlung' (‘The Metamorp…
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