Gail Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"Confusion of Tongues"
The protagonist of the title story in Bachmann's last collection Simultan is arguably at least as much language itself as it is the simultaneous translator Nadja. In the course of the narrative, Nadja experiences various kinds of danger associated with signification, from its suffocating presence to its terrifying absence. Readers, too, find themselves alternately drawn in, carried away, or completely shut out by the uniquely potent combination o…
Fractal Histories
In a sketch of the seven-text cycle Orkus, the Austrian author Gerhard Roth likened the realm of silence—often a guilty silence—he explored in his works to the underworld, an "invisible 'other world' that is probed, and not really understood or 'explained'...in psychoanalysis." Examining the cycle's inaugural novel, The Lake, this essay argues that a multi-theoretical psychoanalysis is indeed able to help readers craft a nuanced understanding of …
Narrating Silence
Gerhard Roth's novel from 1986, Am Abgrund , stands at the center of hismonumental and multi‐genre cycle, Die Archive des Schweigens . On one level, the novel can be read as an allegory of modern Austria, which Roth has called a “Reich des Schweigens.” Its main protagonists—the mute, ostensibly insane Lindner and the law student‐cum‐murderer Jenner—could represent the twinned dimensions of post‐war Austrian silence: guilt and trauma. More broadly…
Pregnancy, Thirdness, and The Aesthetics of Catastrophe in Heinrich Von Kleist
In documenting his own personal crisis of faith in Enlightenment rationalism through letters and essays, Kleist exposes the epistemological fissures in its edifice. This paper explores in psychoanalytic terms the dilemmas associated with knowing and not knowing, and the relationship between self and other, revealed by these texts. Kleist's literary work goes beyond expressing this crisis of knowledge to enact a kind of solution to it, not resolvi…
Using the object in the classroom
Dichtung und Theorie. Der Entwurf einer dichterischen Transzendentalpoetik in den Fragmenten des Novalis
Poetic Process as Intermediate Area in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Der Sitz der Seele ist da, wo sich Innenwelt und Ausenwelt beruhren. W o sie sich durchdringen – ist er in jedem Puncte der Durchdringung.' Nichts ist poetischer, als alle Ubergange und heterogene Mischungen (3:587/221). My claim is that there is a need for a statement [about] the third part of the life of a human being, a part that we cannot ignore, an intermediate area of experiencing, to which inner reality and external life both contribute (W…
The Status of the Subject in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Kleist's Die Marquise von O
Du Bist Nicht Anders Als Ich’
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The Status of the Subject in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and Kleist's Die Marquise von O
Du Bist Nicht Anders Als Ich’
Dichtung und Theorie. Der Entwurf einer dichterischen Transzendentalpoetik in den Fragmenten des Novalis
Poetic Process as Intermediate Area in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Der Sitz der Seele ist da, wo sich Innenwelt und Ausenwelt beruhren. W o sie sich durchdringen – ist er in jedem Puncte der Durchdringung.' Nichts ist poetischer, als alle Ubergange und heterogene Mischungen (3:587/221). My claim is that there is a need for a statement [about] the third part of the life of a human being, a part that we cannot ignore, an intermediate area of experiencing, to which inner reality and external life both contribute (W…
Using the object in the classroom
Pregnancy, Thirdness, and The Aesthetics of Catastrophe in Heinrich Von Kleist
In documenting his own personal crisis of faith in Enlightenment rationalism through letters and essays, Kleist exposes the epistemological fissures in its edifice. This paper explores in psychoanalytic terms the dilemmas associated with knowing and not knowing, and the relationship between self and other, revealed by these texts. Kleist's literary work goes beyond expressing this crisis of knowledge to enact a kind of solution to it, not resolvi…
Narrating Silence
Gerhard Roth's novel from 1986, Am Abgrund , stands at the center of hismonumental and multi‐genre cycle, Die Archive des Schweigens . On one level, the novel can be read as an allegory of modern Austria, which Roth has called a “Reich des Schweigens.” Its main protagonists—the mute, ostensibly insane Lindner and the law student‐cum‐murderer Jenner—could represent the twinned dimensions of post‐war Austrian silence: guilt and trauma. More broadly…
Fractal Histories
In a sketch of the seven-text cycle Orkus, the Austrian author Gerhard Roth likened the realm of silence—often a guilty silence—he explored in his works to the underworld, an "invisible 'other world' that is probed, and not really understood or 'explained'...in psychoanalysis." Examining the cycle's inaugural novel, The Lake, this essay argues that a multi-theoretical psychoanalysis is indeed able to help readers craft a nuanced understanding of …
"Confusion of Tongues"
The protagonist of the title story in Bachmann's last collection Simultan is arguably at least as much language itself as it is the simultaneous translator Nadja. In the course of the narrative, Nadja experiences various kinds of danger associated with signification, from its suffocating presence to its terrifying absence. Readers, too, find themselves alternately drawn in, carried away, or completely shut out by the uniquely potent combination o…
Philosophy (9 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)