John B Lyon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5658407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John B Lyon |
| GIVEN NAMES | John B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyon |
| SIGNATURE | LYON J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4823-7712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Place, Motion, and Guilt in Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen
Wilhelm Raabe’s novel, Stopfkuchen (1890) highlights inescapable guilt, guilt that is both bound to specific places and that can travel great distances. The themes of guilt, place, and motion are interconnected in this novel, and the novel marks a modern shift in the understanding of these themes. It traces an emerging awareness of both the narrator’s individual guilt in a more traditional sense and the collective guilt of his town and of German …
Out of Place
In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. John Lyon analyzes works of three major representatives of German Realism Wilhelm Raabe, Th…
Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and the Crisis of Masculinity
The author draws on contemporary gender and masculinity studies and links notions of masculinity in Kleist's era to the emerging public sphere. In Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, masculinity is a fragile construct that requires repeated and even violent interventions to sustain it. It is grounded in textual relationships between men (homotextuality), yet is also bound to political power, for state authority regulates writing and reading. Th…
The Science of Sciences
Johann Caspar Lavater's science of physiognomics reads human character traits from external physical features. This "science," presented in a four-volume work replete with reproduced images, reflects Lavater's desire to fuse two emerging, yet distinct paradigms of reproduction: scientific replication (the scientific method) and aesthetic reproduction (artistic imitation). Despite his claims to scientific accuracy, however, Lavater values flawed a…
"You Can Kill, but You Cannot Bring to Life"
Pain and physical violence are instrumental for German Classicism, that is, their representation serves an aesthetic and cultural ideal. This article locates pain and violence within the discourses of Bildung and aesthetics in late 18th Century Germany, and analyzes Friedrich Schiller's and Friedrich Hölderlin's responses to these discourses. Hölderlin, in his novel Hyperion, rejects the tendency of this era to instrumentalize pain. Initially, Hö…
Was nemlich mehr sei, das Ganze oder das Einzelne’
Hyperion enacts Hölderlin’s philosophical crisis of the late 1790s over how to constitute a differentiated unity, a totality which simultaneously allows for particularity. The final version of the novel manifests Hölderlin’s struggle to discover whether the particular or the whole is more significant in this endeavour; it does not represent the completed development and accompanying attainment of wholeness by the narrator‐poet intimated in earlie…
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Was nemlich mehr sei, das Ganze oder das Einzelne’
Hyperion enacts Hölderlin’s philosophical crisis of the late 1790s over how to constitute a differentiated unity, a totality which simultaneously allows for particularity. The final version of the novel manifests Hölderlin’s struggle to discover whether the particular or the whole is more significant in this endeavour; it does not represent the completed development and accompanying attainment of wholeness by the narrator‐poet intimated in earlie…
"You Can Kill, but You Cannot Bring to Life"
Pain and physical violence are instrumental for German Classicism, that is, their representation serves an aesthetic and cultural ideal. This article locates pain and violence within the discourses of Bildung and aesthetics in late 18th Century Germany, and analyzes Friedrich Schiller's and Friedrich Hölderlin's responses to these discourses. Hölderlin, in his novel Hyperion, rejects the tendency of this era to instrumentalize pain. Initially, Hö…
The Science of Sciences
Johann Caspar Lavater's science of physiognomics reads human character traits from external physical features. This "science," presented in a four-volume work replete with reproduced images, reflects Lavater's desire to fuse two emerging, yet distinct paradigms of reproduction: scientific replication (the scientific method) and aesthetic reproduction (artistic imitation). Despite his claims to scientific accuracy, however, Lavater values flawed a…
Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and the Crisis of Masculinity
The author draws on contemporary gender and masculinity studies and links notions of masculinity in Kleist's era to the emerging public sphere. In Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, masculinity is a fragile construct that requires repeated and even violent interventions to sustain it. It is grounded in textual relationships between men (homotextuality), yet is also bound to political power, for state authority regulates writing and reading. Th…
Out of Place
In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. John Lyon analyzes works of three major representatives of German Realism Wilhelm Raabe, Th…
Place, Motion, and Guilt in Wilhelm Raabe’s Stopfkuchen
Wilhelm Raabe’s novel, Stopfkuchen (1890) highlights inescapable guilt, guilt that is both bound to specific places and that can travel great distances. The themes of guilt, place, and motion are interconnected in this novel, and the novel marks a modern shift in the understanding of these themes. It traces an emerging awareness of both the narrator’s individual guilt in a more traditional sense and the collective guilt of his town and of German …
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