Kaleen Gallagher
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaleen Gallagher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallagher |
| SIGNATURE | GALLAGHER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The King's College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shame and shamelessness in Oskar Roehler's Die Unberührbare
This article makes the case that the life of Hanna Flanders, the protagonist of Oskar Roehler's film Die Unberührbare (2000), is marked by a dialectic of shame and shamelessness that persists even into her death by suicide and indeed beyond it. Roehler based the film on the life of his mother, the writer Gisela Elsner, and he highlights the centrality of shame and shamelessness to his own enterprise—which could invite shame by publicizing the sui…
The cultural Myth of the suicidal Authoress
In Einem Unverstandenen Gesetz’
This article argues that the law represents a significant and largely overlooked motif in Ingeborg Bachmann's work. It offers an initial overview of the role of the law in the author's writing and identifies two major patterns: in texts like Der gute Gott von Manhattan , ‘Undine geht’, and ‘Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha’, the law functions above all as a metaphor for a repressive social order. Yet others, including ‘Ein Wildermuth’ and the libretti ‘…
The Problem of Shame in Christa Wolf's Stadt Der Engel Oder the Overcoat of Dr. Freud
This article examines Christa Wolf's final novel, Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud , in the context of the rest of her œuvre . It argues that the central crisis faced by the narrator is one of shame, brought on by the revelation that she briefly served as an ‘Informeller Mitarbeiter’ of the Stasi in her youth. The fact that she had managed to ‘forget’ this embarrassing experience for decades only makes her eventual humiliation all t…
The Problem of Shame in Christa Wolf's Stadt Der Engel Oder the Overcoat of Dr. Freud
This article examines Christa Wolf's final novel, Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud , in the context of the rest of her œuvre . It argues that the central crisis faced by the narrator is one of shame, brought on by the revelation that she briefly served as an ‘Informeller Mitarbeiter’ of the Stasi in her youth. The fact that she had managed to ‘forget’ this embarrassing experience for decades only makes her eventual humiliation all t…
The Problem of Shame in Christa Wolf's Stadt Der Engel Oder the Overcoat of Dr. Freud
This article examines Christa Wolf's final novel, Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud , in the context of the rest of her œuvre . It argues that the central crisis faced by the narrator is one of shame, brought on by the revelation that she briefly served as an ‘Informeller Mitarbeiter’ of the Stasi in her youth. The fact that she had managed to ‘forget’ this embarrassing experience for decades only makes her eventual humiliation all t…
In Einem Unverstandenen Gesetz’
This article argues that the law represents a significant and largely overlooked motif in Ingeborg Bachmann's work. It offers an initial overview of the role of the law in the author's writing and identifies two major patterns: in texts like Der gute Gott von Manhattan , ‘Undine geht’, and ‘Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha’, the law functions above all as a metaphor for a repressive social order. Yet others, including ‘Ein Wildermuth’ and the libretti ‘…
The cultural Myth of the suicidal Authoress
Shame and shamelessness in Oskar Roehler's Die Unberührbare
This article makes the case that the life of Hanna Flanders, the protagonist of Oskar Roehler's film Die Unberührbare (2000), is marked by a dialectic of shame and shamelessness that persists even into her death by suicide and indeed beyond it. Roehler based the film on the life of his mother, the writer Gisela Elsner, and he highlights the centrality of shame and shamelessness to his own enterprise—which could invite shame by publicizing the sui…
Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · German History and Society (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works)