Scott Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vermin
Gregor Samsa’s problem is not with his new body, but rather with how that body is construed through the language and upright culture of his world. Standing, in that world, is a primary determinant of human identity, a definition that excludes a creature whose body interacts differently with the world. Through constant repetition of words and gestures related to uprightness, Kafka develops a constellation that confronts readers with deep questions…
Barbed and Dangerous
Weimar on the Pacific
Ehrhard Bahr, on Pacific: German Exile Culture Los and Crisis of Modernism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 358 pp. Newly arrived from Europe 1939,Thomas Mann finished his novel Lotte with words addressed to celebrity: Good god, Frau Hoff atin, I must say: To help Werther's Lotte out of Goethe's carriage, that is an event- what can I say? It must be written down.Two years later, The New Yorker titled society report…
Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Calling
Luslustigtig
Rainer Maria Rilkes "Duineser Elegien" und die moderne deutsche Lyrik
"Des Dastehns groSSer Anfangsbuchstab"
The fifth of Rilke's Duineser Elegien begins with a question about the struggling acrobats featured there: Wer aber sind sie, sag mir, die Fahrenden, diese ein wenig Fliichtigern noch als wir selbst .. In answer, the poet focuses on the transition from falling to rising, that brief moment in which the acrobats stand there, creating des Dastehns grof3er Anfangsbuchstab. Who are they then? Beings who stand there. A quick survey of the Elegies revea…
Adventures of a Flounder
The Narrative Works of Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass' Hundejahre
Der Zauberberg and the German Romantic Novel
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Der Zauberberg and the German Romantic Novel
Gunter Grass' Hundejahre
Adventures of a Flounder
The Narrative Works of Gunter Grass
"Des Dastehns groSSer Anfangsbuchstab"
The fifth of Rilke's Duineser Elegien begins with a question about the struggling acrobats featured there: Wer aber sind sie, sag mir, die Fahrenden, diese ein wenig Fliichtigern noch als wir selbst .. In answer, the poet focuses on the transition from falling to rising, that brief moment in which the acrobats stand there, creating des Dastehns grof3er Anfangsbuchstab. Who are they then? Beings who stand there. A quick survey of the Elegies revea…
Rainer Maria Rilkes "Duineser Elegien" und die moderne deutsche Lyrik
Luslustigtig
Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Calling
Weimar on the Pacific
Ehrhard Bahr, on Pacific: German Exile Culture Los and Crisis of Modernism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 358 pp. Newly arrived from Europe 1939,Thomas Mann finished his novel Lotte with words addressed to celebrity: Good god, Frau Hoff atin, I must say: To help Werther's Lotte out of Goethe's carriage, that is an event- what can I say? It must be written down.Two years later, The New Yorker titled society report…
Barbed and Dangerous
Vermin
Gregor Samsa’s problem is not with his new body, but rather with how that body is construed through the language and upright culture of his world. Standing, in that world, is a primary determinant of human identity, a definition that excludes a creature whose body interacts differently with the world. Through constant repetition of words and gestures related to uprightness, Kafka develops a constellation that confronts readers with deep questions…
Art (9 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (3 works) · German History and Society (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works)