Tim Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Passau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0039-3962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Diasporic Papers
This article explores the impact of the Nobel Prize in Literature on the acquisition policies of literary archives. Focusing on laureates and the twenty-first-century fate of their manuscripts, it argues that the international reach of the prize is mirrored by a contemporary archival landscape that is at once global and unequal. Although many archives concentrate on collecting material from the linguistic and cultural context of which they themse…
Romantic objects, Victorian collections
Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic. This article reconstructs how authorial script gradually transformed into a collectible object pursued as a memento and a commodi…
Vergehendes Erzählen. Philosophische, psychologische und narratologische Dimensionen des Zeitbegriffs in Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg
Der Zauberberg ist von der Forschung unter Rückgriff auf einen von Thomas Mann selbst verwendeten Begriff häufig als „Zeitroman” beschrieben worden. Dabei hat oft die Frage nach den historischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Zusammenhängen des Texts – als Rückblick auf das Vorkriegseuropa beziehungsweise als Spiegel der klassischen Moderne – im Mittelpunkt gestanden. Der vorliegende Artikel widmet sich der Zeitthematik des Romans aus einem anderen…
Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority
Transatlantic Exchanges and the Shifting “Geography of the Word”
This essay prints two previously unpublished letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle and contextualizes them against the background of the transatlantic collaboration between the two writers, shedding new light on their exchange of books and manuscripts between Boston and London during the second third of the nineteenth century
Between Aura and Access
This article analyses narratives inspired by the institutional emergence of the literary archive. It focuses in particular on what historian Arlette Farge has described as the “allure of the archives”: the elusive immediacy of encounters with artefactual remnants of the past. Key to this experience is what has often been described as the ability of archival objects to conjure up the presence of their creators – a process that at the same time par…
Always as a Means, Never as an End”
This essay examines how Orestes Brownson used literary criticism as a medium to distance himself from the Transcendentalist movement. It argues that Brownson's qualified rejection of Transcendentalism played a crucial role in the formation of his professional identity as a literary critic and public intellectual in the mid-nineteenth-century literary sphere
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Always as a Means, Never as an End”
This essay examines how Orestes Brownson used literary criticism as a medium to distance himself from the Transcendentalist movement. It argues that Brownson's qualified rejection of Transcendentalism played a crucial role in the formation of his professional identity as a literary critic and public intellectual in the mid-nineteenth-century literary sphere
Between Aura and Access
This article analyses narratives inspired by the institutional emergence of the literary archive. It focuses in particular on what historian Arlette Farge has described as the “allure of the archives”: the elusive immediacy of encounters with artefactual remnants of the past. Key to this experience is what has often been described as the ability of archival objects to conjure up the presence of their creators – a process that at the same time par…
Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority
Transatlantic Exchanges and the Shifting “Geography of the Word”
This essay prints two previously unpublished letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle and contextualizes them against the background of the transatlantic collaboration between the two writers, shedding new light on their exchange of books and manuscripts between Boston and London during the second third of the nineteenth century
Vergehendes Erzählen. Philosophische, psychologische und narratologische Dimensionen des Zeitbegriffs in Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg
Der Zauberberg ist von der Forschung unter Rückgriff auf einen von Thomas Mann selbst verwendeten Begriff häufig als „Zeitroman” beschrieben worden. Dabei hat oft die Frage nach den historischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Zusammenhängen des Texts – als Rückblick auf das Vorkriegseuropa beziehungsweise als Spiegel der klassischen Moderne – im Mittelpunkt gestanden. Der vorliegende Artikel widmet sich der Zeitthematik des Romans aus einem anderen…
Diasporic Papers
This article explores the impact of the Nobel Prize in Literature on the acquisition policies of literary archives. Focusing on laureates and the twenty-first-century fate of their manuscripts, it argues that the international reach of the prize is mirrored by a contemporary archival landscape that is at once global and unequal. Although many archives concentrate on collecting material from the linguistic and cultural context of which they themse…
Romantic objects, Victorian collections
Over the course of the nineteenth century, literary manuscripts came to be seen as tangible evidence of the creative process and as a key to the personality of the author. The material traces of writing were understood to outlive their creators and promise to resurrect the authorial body through the magic of the relic. This article reconstructs how authorial script gradually transformed into a collectible object pursued as a memento and a commodi…
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