Ruth J Owen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth J Owen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Owen |
| SIGNATURE | OWEN R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roses Are Red
This article investigates how Luxemburg has been remembered in lyric written in German. Not seeking to calibrate her legacy as such, it rather explores how poets have represented and imagined her: the moments they select to encapsulate her significance, the actions and locations with which they associ- ate her, and their visions of her physical body. It traces patterns of remembrance in the inspired by Luxemburg's assassination, elucidating the c…
Claiming the Body
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Ophelia is a "found object," inherited from Shakespeare's Hamlet and from countless European poets and painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally, Ophelia was the young girl in love who lost her mind and drowned in an overhung brook. Her recurrence in Müller's Hamletmaschine and in poems by Bobrowksi, Huchel, Hilbig, Bartsch, Pietraß, and Köhler signals an interaction between the GDR pre…
Science in Contemporary Poetry
One of the most striking characteristics of Raoul Schrott’s and Durs Grünbein’s poetry is its thematisation of science. Schrott and Grünbein are remarkably different contemporary poets however: in this paper I suggest that their conflicting uses of science in poetry constitute a useful point of comparison. Schrott’s scientists are poet‐like figures who see the world in a new way, extending perspective and providing an example to the modern‐day ly…
The Ex‐GDR Poet and the People
At the ‘Wende’ writers were swayed anew by abstract ideals. Such ideals at first seemed to concur with the aims of the people’s demonstrations in 1989. Ulti‐mately, however, the people sought Western‐style democracy and the end of German division, whereas many GDR writers and intellectuals opposed unification. This made them deeply unpopular, in the most literal sense of this word. To some extent, literature always contains idealised visions: non…
Roses Are Red
This article investigates how Luxemburg has been remembered in lyric written in German. Not seeking to calibrate her legacy as such, it rather explores how poets have represented and imagined her: the moments they select to encapsulate her significance, the actions and locations with which they associ- ate her, and their visions of her physical body. It traces patterns of remembrance in the inspired by Luxemburg's assassination, elucidating the c…
Science in Contemporary Poetry
One of the most striking characteristics of Raoul Schrott’s and Durs Grünbein’s poetry is its thematisation of science. Schrott and Grünbein are remarkably different contemporary poets however: in this paper I suggest that their conflicting uses of science in poetry constitute a useful point of comparison. Schrott’s scientists are poet‐like figures who see the world in a new way, extending perspective and providing an example to the modern‐day ly…
The Ex‐GDR Poet and the People
At the ‘Wende’ writers were swayed anew by abstract ideals. Such ideals at first seemed to concur with the aims of the people’s demonstrations in 1989. Ulti‐mately, however, the people sought Western‐style democracy and the end of German division, whereas many GDR writers and intellectuals opposed unification. This made them deeply unpopular, in the most literal sense of this word. To some extent, literature always contains idealised visions: non…
Science in Contemporary Poetry
One of the most striking characteristics of Raoul Schrott’s and Durs Grünbein’s poetry is its thematisation of science. Schrott and Grünbein are remarkably different contemporary poets however: in this paper I suggest that their conflicting uses of science in poetry constitute a useful point of comparison. Schrott’s scientists are poet‐like figures who see the world in a new way, extending perspective and providing an example to the modern‐day ly…
Claiming the Body
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Ophelia is a "found object," inherited from Shakespeare's Hamlet and from countless European poets and painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally, Ophelia was the young girl in love who lost her mind and drowned in an overhung brook. Her recurrence in Müller's Hamletmaschine and in poems by Bobrowksi, Huchel, Hilbig, Bartsch, Pietraß, and Köhler signals an interaction between the GDR pre…
Roses Are Red
This article investigates how Luxemburg has been remembered in lyric written in German. Not seeking to calibrate her legacy as such, it rather explores how poets have represented and imagined her: the moments they select to encapsulate her significance, the actions and locations with which they associ- ate her, and their visions of her physical body. It traces patterns of remembrance in the inspired by Luxemburg's assassination, elucidating the c…
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