Benjamin Gittel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Gittel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gittel |
| SIGNATURE | GITTEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Primate Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1855-0049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Narratives of decline
This article examines fictional engagement with cultural critique, understood as a critique that measures the present against an idealized past and interprets contemporary cultural phenomena as symptoms of decline. The article contends that narratives of decline in contemporary fiction take on complex, literarily sophisticated forms that go far beyond the conventional means of nostalgic depictions or evaluatively charged spatial contrasts like ur…
The ongoing birth of the narrator
This article explores the historical evolution of the distinction between author and narrator in German-language literary criticism, an area largely unexplored by quantitative methods. While narratologists often distinguish between a fictional narrator and the author, the practical adoption of this distinction by readers remains under-examined. We hypothesize a semantic shift in the term ‘narrator’ from referring to the actual author to a fictive…
An Institutional Perspective on Genres
Using a custom-designed database of 388,000 first editions of German Literature this paper investigates the long-term development of genre-indicating subtitles over more than 500 years of literary history. This approach adds a social-institutional perspective to recent work in the field of genre theory, and is a first step towards combining historical testimony, i.e. historical actors’ classifications, and textual features in a single model. Star…
Wirklichkeitsverlust‹, ›Wirklichkeitshunger‹ und »Neuer Realismus«
Literary Studies of contemporary works of literature, in the absence of a canon, are largely directed by order-making umbrella terms. Using the umbrella term ‘new realism’ as an example this study examines (1) its relationship with poetological discourses and discourses of a diagnosis of the present, (2) how the umbrella term’s attractiveness corresponds to its conceptual underdetermination, and (3) which different forms text analytical concepts …
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Wirklichkeitsverlust‹, ›Wirklichkeitshunger‹ und »Neuer Realismus«
Literary Studies of contemporary works of literature, in the absence of a canon, are largely directed by order-making umbrella terms. Using the umbrella term ‘new realism’ as an example this study examines (1) its relationship with poetological discourses and discourses of a diagnosis of the present, (2) how the umbrella term’s attractiveness corresponds to its conceptual underdetermination, and (3) which different forms text analytical concepts …
An Institutional Perspective on Genres
Using a custom-designed database of 388,000 first editions of German Literature this paper investigates the long-term development of genre-indicating subtitles over more than 500 years of literary history. This approach adds a social-institutional perspective to recent work in the field of genre theory, and is a first step towards combining historical testimony, i.e. historical actors’ classifications, and textual features in a single model. Star…
Narratives of decline
This article examines fictional engagement with cultural critique, understood as a critique that measures the present against an idealized past and interprets contemporary cultural phenomena as symptoms of decline. The article contends that narratives of decline in contemporary fiction take on complex, literarily sophisticated forms that go far beyond the conventional means of nostalgic depictions or evaluatively charged spatial contrasts like ur…
The ongoing birth of the narrator
This article explores the historical evolution of the distinction between author and narrator in German-language literary criticism, an area largely unexplored by quantitative methods. While narratologists often distinguish between a fictional narrator and the author, the practical adoption of this distinction by readers remains under-examined. We hypothesize a semantic shift in the term ‘narrator’ from referring to the actual author to a fictive…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)