Ruth V Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth V Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth V |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kafka in the age of artificial intelligence
Our singer is called Franz. “Wer [ihn] nicht gehört hat, kennt nicht die Macht des Gesanges” (Kafka 193). These (slightly altered) opening lines of “Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse” came to mind when an audience member came up to me after a presentation I gave recently on “Kafka in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” She lamented the fact that not one of her students in the past three years had a notion of who Franz Kafka was. I w…
Franz Kafka
Reviewed by: Franz Kafka: "Der Hungerkünstler"-Zyklus und die kleine Prosa von 1920–1924: Freiheit-Judentum-Kunst by Marcel Krings Ruth V. Gross Marcel Krings, Franz Kafka: "Der Hungerkünstler"-Zyklus und die kleine Prosa von 1920–1924: Freiheit-Judentum-Kunst. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. 497 pp. Taking up the same idea as in his earlier book Franz Kafka: Der "Landarzt"-Zyklus: Freiheit-Schrift-Judentum (2017) of reading various …
Operetta Empire
Reviewed by: Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna by Micaela Baranello Ruth V. Gross Micaela Baranello, Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna. Oakland: U California P, 2021. 235 pp. Micaela Baranello has a lot to say about the world of Viennese operetta. Her recent book, The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna, provides readers with a detailed analysis of the conn…
Diaries(1931–1940) by Stefan Zweig
Reviewed by: Diaries(1931–1940) by Stefan Zweig Ruth V. Gross Stefan Zweig, Diaries(1931–1940). Annotated by Jesús Blázquez. Trans. Ediciones 98, S.L. Madrid: Ediciones 98, 2021. 156 pp. Zweig’s Tagebücher, the diaries that he kept sporadically between 1912 and 1940, first came out in the original German in 1984. With this publication by the Spanish publisher Ediciones 98, we have the first translation of the Zweig diaries into English. This volu…
Kafka lesen
Reviewed by: Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur by Peter Pfaff Ruth V. Gross Peter Pfaff, Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. 213 pp. Peter Pfaff’s Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur is a tour-de-force reading of an entire oeuvre. In an unusual addition to the volumes of Kafka scholarship, this imaginative and sometimes frustrating work of Kafka criticism is reminiscent of Kafka cr…
Kafka
Reviewed by: Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach Ruth V. Gross Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Early Years. Translation by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2017. 564pp. As a Kafka scholar I believe I know a lot about the author who has been the subject of so much of my own research and writing over the past forty years, but having now read the long-awaited last volume of Reiner Stach's three-part biography—the volume that actually covers …
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Reviewed by: Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives ed. by Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber Ruth V. Gross Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber, eds., Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 266 pp. Was Stefan Zweig a first-class second-rate author or a modern master? This question haunts Stefan Zweig studies, which are currently experiencing a kin…
Kafkas [Un-]Glück
Reviewed by: Kafkas [Un-]Glück: Zur negativen Dialektik des Schreibens by Volker Steffen Ruth V. Gross Volker Steffen, Kafkas [Un-]Glück: Zur negativen Dialektik des Schreibens. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2010. 107 pp. Few would dispute that Kafka’s works deal with such topoi as guilt, punishment, law, and alienation. Volker Steffen‘s premise, based on Walter Benjamin, is that in order to really understand Kafka, one must also deal with the concept of…
A Report to An Academy
Critical Essays on Franz Kafka
Of Mice and Women
Le paradoxe et parabole chez K. La femme exprime reflexion sur le concept paradoxal de l'interiorite et le depassement de cette interiorite. Le cliche de la femme et de souris dans cette nouvelle de K. comme le signe parabolique d'un repli pathologique sur le moi
Franz Kafka, Das Schloss. Kritische Ausgabe
Kaspar/Kasperl
Kasperletheater designates puppet theater in Austria and Southern Germany. It got its name from Kasperl, the Austrian version of the Wurstel or Hans Wurst, the naive country bumpkin who with his charm, humor, and common sense, became the hero of Viennese comic theater as well as of a certain kind of marionette theater in the eighteenth century. At their inception, Kasperl plays brought a new dimension to the traditional Hanswurst clown figure-the…
Der Theaterkritiker Otto Brahm (Studien zur Literatur der Moderne, Bd. 6)
The Legacy of Jura Soyfer 1912-1939
Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly Romance
Schillers Don Karlos
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Schillers Don Karlos
The Legacy of Jura Soyfer 1912-1939
Misogyny and Idealization in the Courtly Romance
Der Theaterkritiker Otto Brahm (Studien zur Literatur der Moderne, Bd. 6)
Kaspar/Kasperl
Kasperletheater designates puppet theater in Austria and Southern Germany. It got its name from Kasperl, the Austrian version of the Wurstel or Hans Wurst, the naive country bumpkin who with his charm, humor, and common sense, became the hero of Viennese comic theater as well as of a certain kind of marionette theater in the eighteenth century. At their inception, Kasperl plays brought a new dimension to the traditional Hanswurst clown figure-the…
Franz Kafka, Das Schloss. Kritische Ausgabe
Of Mice and Women
Le paradoxe et parabole chez K. La femme exprime reflexion sur le concept paradoxal de l'interiorite et le depassement de cette interiorite. Le cliche de la femme et de souris dans cette nouvelle de K. comme le signe parabolique d'un repli pathologique sur le moi
Critical Essays on Franz Kafka
A Report to An Academy
Kafkas [Un-]Glück
Reviewed by: Kafkas [Un-]Glück: Zur negativen Dialektik des Schreibens by Volker Steffen Ruth V. Gross Volker Steffen, Kafkas [Un-]Glück: Zur negativen Dialektik des Schreibens. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2010. 107 pp. Few would dispute that Kafka’s works deal with such topoi as guilt, punishment, law, and alienation. Volker Steffen‘s premise, based on Walter Benjamin, is that in order to really understand Kafka, one must also deal with the concept of…
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Reviewed by: Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives ed. by Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber Ruth V. Gross Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber, eds., Stefan Zweig and World Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 266 pp. Was Stefan Zweig a first-class second-rate author or a modern master? This question haunts Stefan Zweig studies, which are currently experiencing a kin…
Kafka
Reviewed by: Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach Ruth V. Gross Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Early Years. Translation by Shelley Frisch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2017. 564pp. As a Kafka scholar I believe I know a lot about the author who has been the subject of so much of my own research and writing over the past forty years, but having now read the long-awaited last volume of Reiner Stach's three-part biography—the volume that actually covers …
Kafka lesen
Reviewed by: Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur by Peter Pfaff Ruth V. Gross Peter Pfaff, Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. 213 pp. Peter Pfaff’s Kafka lesen: Zur Methode seiner Literatur is a tour-de-force reading of an entire oeuvre. In an unusual addition to the volumes of Kafka scholarship, this imaginative and sometimes frustrating work of Kafka criticism is reminiscent of Kafka cr…
Operetta Empire
Reviewed by: Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna by Micaela Baranello Ruth V. Gross Micaela Baranello, Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna. Oakland: U California P, 2021. 235 pp. Micaela Baranello has a lot to say about the world of Viennese operetta. Her recent book, The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna, provides readers with a detailed analysis of the conn…
Diaries(1931–1940) by Stefan Zweig
Reviewed by: Diaries(1931–1940) by Stefan Zweig Ruth V. Gross Stefan Zweig, Diaries(1931–1940). Annotated by Jesús Blázquez. Trans. Ediciones 98, S.L. Madrid: Ediciones 98, 2021. 156 pp. Zweig’s Tagebücher, the diaries that he kept sporadically between 1912 and 1940, first came out in the original German in 1984. With this publication by the Spanish publisher Ediciones 98, we have the first translation of the Zweig diaries into English. This volu…
Franz Kafka
Reviewed by: Franz Kafka: "Der Hungerkünstler"-Zyklus und die kleine Prosa von 1920–1924: Freiheit-Judentum-Kunst by Marcel Krings Ruth V. Gross Marcel Krings, Franz Kafka: "Der Hungerkünstler"-Zyklus und die kleine Prosa von 1920–1924: Freiheit-Judentum-Kunst. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. 497 pp. Taking up the same idea as in his earlier book Franz Kafka: Der "Landarzt"-Zyklus: Freiheit-Schrift-Judentum (2017) of reading various …
Kafka in the age of artificial intelligence
Our singer is called Franz. “Wer [ihn] nicht gehört hat, kennt nicht die Macht des Gesanges” (Kafka 193). These (slightly altered) opening lines of “Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse” came to mind when an audience member came up to me after a presentation I gave recently on “Kafka in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” She lamented the fact that not one of her students in the past three years had a notion of who Franz Kafka was. I w…
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