Todd Kontje
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Kontje |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Kontje |
| SIGNATURE | KONTJE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9269-4908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Das Un
Das Un:gehörte, un:gehörig Un:erhörte im mehrkulturellen Schreiben. The Un:heard, Unsee:mly Un:heard-of: Writing More Cultures. Herausgegeben von Barbara Siller. Dresden: Thelem Universitätsverlag, 2023. 130 Seiten. €24,80 broschiert. This slender but dense volume is the result of a two
Byrd, Vance, and Ervin Malakaj, editors. Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
Of Mutts and Mann
This article focuses on Thomas Mann’s autobiographical essay about his dog in the light of his early fiction and wartime journalism. Herr und Hund represents not only an idyllic retreat from troubled times but also an ongoing engagement with themes central to Mann’s creative prose and cultural politics, including distinctions between human reason and animal passions, alleged racial differences among humans, and relations between nature and civili…
Saul Fitelberg's Failed Seduction
This essay places Thomas Mann's treatment of the ‘Jewish question’ in the broader context of the artist's relationship to the world. Saul Fitelberg's offer to draw Leverkühn out of isolation engages questions about German national identity at a time when Mann insisted that he represented the true German tradition of cosmopolitan openness, in contrast to the Nazi effort to delimit Germanness to a racial core and eliminate those who threatened to c…
Decentering Germany's Classical Center
This essay reflects on the interrelated topics of the Germans’ response to intra‐European conflict and their relation to extra‐European imperialism. Against the myth that the politically fragmented Germans first found unity in the realm of culture and then joined together to defeat Napoleon and his armies, we find instead fictions of fractured identities, conflicts in border zones between collaborators and resistance fighters, regional loyalties,…
Jeffrey Einboden. Islam and Romanticism
German Orientalisms
A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900
Reawakening German realism, Todd Kontje Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the lesson of realism, Robert C. Holub Muehlbach, Ranke and the truth of historical fiction, Brent O. Peterson In the heart of the heart of the country - regional histories as national history in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872 - 80), Lynne Tatlock a woman's post - gender and nation in historical fiction by Louise von Francois, Thomas C. Fox Friedrich Spielhagen - the demon …
Popularizing the Nation
Popularizing the Nation examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to Kirsten Belgum's study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that first appeared in 1853 and became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. In the midst of the magazine's varied fare was a host of writings that touched on the themes of the German nation and national identity. In countless articles on cul…
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871
The German Bildungsroman
Introduction 1. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2. Agathon, Anton Reiser, Hyperion 3. Der grune Heinrich 4. Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Der Nachsommer 5. Der Zauberberg 6. Conclusion
Passing for German
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771–1871
In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period, he shows the historical and thematic coherence of a body of fiction by women that has been obscured by traditional literary histories. He explores ways in which novels…
The Crises of "Language and Dead Signs" in Ludwig Tieck's Prose Fiction
Male Fantasies, Female Readers
The German Bildungsroman
Private Lives in the Public Sphere
Untersuchungen zum Roman von Frauen um 1800
Under The Spell
Schonheit und Freiheit
Constructing Reality
Schiller
Schiller: Ansichten eines Idealisten." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 64(2), pp. 85–86
Bausteine zu einem neuen Goethe
Die Metaphorik des Schonen
Benjamin Bennett, Goethe’s Theory of Poetry
BENJAMIN BENNETT, Goethe’s Theory of Poetry: ‘Faust’ and the Regeneration of Language." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 63(2), pp. 110–111
Organized Violence/Violating Order
Philosophical is a phrase used by David Luft to characterize a general tendency in German novel of early twentieth century (18-22). In an era of crisis in traditional bourgeois culture, systematic metaphysics no longer seemed possible, and novel also moved away from story and immediate aesthetic totality in direction of essayism, interpretation, and fragmented form. The result was a series of novels that crossed traditional boundaries between phi…
The Reader as Josef K
(1979). The Reader as Josef K. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 62-66
Biography in Triplicate
Bausteine zu einem neuen Goethe
Die Metaphorik des Schonen
Benjamin Bennett, Goethe’s Theory of Poetry
BENJAMIN BENNETT, Goethe’s Theory of Poetry: ‘Faust’ and the Regeneration of Language." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 63(2), pp. 110–111
Organized Violence/Violating Order
Philosophical is a phrase used by David Luft to characterize a general tendency in German novel of early twentieth century (18-22). In an era of crisis in traditional bourgeois culture, systematic metaphysics no longer seemed possible, and novel also moved away from story and immediate aesthetic totality in direction of essayism, interpretation, and fragmented form. The result was a series of novels that crossed traditional boundaries between phi…
Constructing Reality
Schiller
Schiller: Ansichten eines Idealisten." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 64(2), pp. 85–86
Schonheit und Freiheit
Untersuchungen zum Roman von Frauen um 1800
Under The Spell
Private Lives in the Public Sphere
Male Fantasies, Female Readers
The German Bildungsroman
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771–1871
In this 1998 book, Todd Kontje surveys novels by German women over the one-hundred-year period that stretches from the beginnings of a German national literature to the founding of its nation-state. Introducing readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period, he shows the historical and thematic coherence of a body of fiction by women that has been obscured by traditional literary histories. He explores ways in which novels…
The Crises of "Language and Dead Signs" in Ludwig Tieck's Prose Fiction
The German Bildungsroman
Introduction 1. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2. Agathon, Anton Reiser, Hyperion 3. Der grune Heinrich 4. Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Der Nachsommer 5. Der Zauberberg 6. Conclusion
Passing for German
Popularizing the Nation
Popularizing the Nation examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to Kirsten Belgum's study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that first appeared in 1853 and became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. In the midst of the magazine's varied fare was a host of writings that touched on the themes of the German nation and national identity. In countless articles on cul…
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871
German Orientalisms
A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900
Reawakening German realism, Todd Kontje Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the lesson of realism, Robert C. Holub Muehlbach, Ranke and the truth of historical fiction, Brent O. Peterson In the heart of the heart of the country - regional histories as national history in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872 - 80), Lynne Tatlock a woman's post - gender and nation in historical fiction by Louise von Francois, Thomas C. Fox Friedrich Spielhagen - the demon …
Jeffrey Einboden. Islam and Romanticism
Decentering Germany's Classical Center
This essay reflects on the interrelated topics of the Germans’ response to intra‐European conflict and their relation to extra‐European imperialism. Against the myth that the politically fragmented Germans first found unity in the realm of culture and then joined together to defeat Napoleon and his armies, we find instead fictions of fractured identities, conflicts in border zones between collaborators and resistance fighters, regional loyalties,…
Byrd, Vance, and Ervin Malakaj, editors. Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
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