Tove Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tove Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tove |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1160-1916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“The Poetry of the Manufacturers…and their Imitators”
The Inner Concatenation of the Universal with the Particular
This article examines Alexander von Humboldt's scientific practice of relating the broad overview back to the granular level of particulars in order to allow a greater scope to reemerge in an oscillary pattern. Despite Humboldt's predilection for the Totalansicht or total overview, such views prove alienating and cannot be properly understood without moving between differing scales and timeframes and dissecting the individual parts of which they …
Realism as Theory
German Studies in the Era of Climate Change
An Archive of the Earth
The history of landscapes and geological formations is a frequent topic of contemplation for the protagonists in Adalbert Stifter’s narratives. Their questions about the readability of the surface of the earth evoke the tradition of the book of nature, but the increasing awareness of the depth of geological time calls for a more dynamic form of archive, one that is not threatened by but based on processes of decomposition and decipherment. This e…
Reizende Aussichten
Reizende Aussichten:Aesthetic and Scientific Observation in Albrecht von Haller's Die Alpen Tove Holmes (bio) Albrecht von Haller (1708–77) defined the field of modern physiology, made significant contributions to botany as well as to the experimental scientific method more generally, and was also widely known in his time as a man of letters for his 1729/32 poem Die Alpen. The 49 stanzas of alexandrine verse were translated into several European …
Exemplarity and Mediocrity
Reviewed by: Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism Tove Holmes (bio) Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009. 240 pages. Paul Fleming's book Exemplarity and Mediocrity sets up its titular juxtaposition to be read both ways: exemplarity as opposed to mediocrity, and exemplarity along with,…
The Ideology of the Moderates in Buchner's ‘Dantons Tod’
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The Ideology of the Moderates in Buchner's ‘Dantons Tod’
Exemplarity and Mediocrity
Reviewed by: Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism Tove Holmes (bio) Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009. 240 pages. Paul Fleming's book Exemplarity and Mediocrity sets up its titular juxtaposition to be read both ways: exemplarity as opposed to mediocrity, and exemplarity along with,…
Reizende Aussichten
Reizende Aussichten:Aesthetic and Scientific Observation in Albrecht von Haller's Die Alpen Tove Holmes (bio) Albrecht von Haller (1708–77) defined the field of modern physiology, made significant contributions to botany as well as to the experimental scientific method more generally, and was also widely known in his time as a man of letters for his 1729/32 poem Die Alpen. The 49 stanzas of alexandrine verse were translated into several European …
An Archive of the Earth
The history of landscapes and geological formations is a frequent topic of contemplation for the protagonists in Adalbert Stifter’s narratives. Their questions about the readability of the surface of the earth evoke the tradition of the book of nature, but the increasing awareness of the depth of geological time calls for a more dynamic form of archive, one that is not threatened by but based on processes of decomposition and decipherment. This e…
German Studies in the Era of Climate Change
“The Poetry of the Manufacturers…and their Imitators”
The Inner Concatenation of the Universal with the Particular
This article examines Alexander von Humboldt's scientific practice of relating the broad overview back to the granular level of particulars in order to allow a greater scope to reemerge in an oscillary pattern. Despite Humboldt's predilection for the Totalansicht or total overview, such views prove alienating and cannot be properly understood without moving between differing scales and timeframes and dissecting the individual parts of which they …
Realism as Theory
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