Imke Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5779166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imke Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imke |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0698-7509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ghosts in the Machine
The writings of Franz Kafka open, perhaps precisely because of their temporal distance to our present, a unique window onto the nexus of power, material, and the human that constitutes AI today. Anxiety and Unbehagen [discontent] are states of mind that often grip both Kafka and his characters in an early-20th-century world increasingly dependent upon and perceived through the lens of disembodied communication and technology. But can we draw a li…
On the curiously queer realism of Adalbert Stifter's Bunte Steine
Is it curious to argue that Adalbert Stifter's story collection Bunte Steine is queer? Published in December 1852 (and dated to 1853) in the wake of Stifter's ultimately critical stance toward the 1848 revolution, and introduced by a Vorrede that famously speaks of the story collection's search for a “sanfte[s] Gesez” (Stifter 12), it would at first glance seem to resist such a reading. Of course, for decades now, Stifter scholarship has highligh…
Introduction
“Vor dem Gesetz steht ein Türhüter“ (Drucke 267). The famous first sentence of Kafka's parable “Vor dem Gesetz” appears on the page as a literal Feststellung, a frozen constellation that will expand into an eternal present for the Mann vom Lande who approaches the Türhüter to ask for entry into the law. The Mann vom Lande is not granted entry and will spend year after year, the remainder of his life, waiting for a change in the situation—which, o…
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In Memoriam
In Memoriam:Jens Rieckmann Imke Meyer Jens Rieckmann died on December 8, 2013. He was only sixty-nine years old—too young to pass away and to leave behind his beloved partner of forty-three years, David Perkins; his many friends; his books; and his home with its well-stocked kitchen and its beautifully tended garden in Amherst, New Hampshire. But congestive heart failure cut short the life of one who touched many of us—with his intellect as much …
A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
Marlene Streeruwitz
Jenseits der Spiegel kein Land
Ludwig Tiecks Des Lebens Überfluß
Elfriede Jelinek
Weibliches Textbegehren bei Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlen Haushofer und Unica Zurn
Elfriede Jelinek
Rewriting Reality
This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterise her writing. Background contextual information on historical and literary developments is provided to help the reader gain a better understanding of Jelinek's writing and her place within current international debates on feminism…
Erklar mir Liebe
Im Spiegel Ist Sonntag, Im Traum Wird Geschlafen”
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Im Spiegel Ist Sonntag, Im Traum Wird Geschlafen”
Elfriede Jelinek
Rewriting Reality
This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterise her writing. Background contextual information on historical and literary developments is provided to help the reader gain a better understanding of Jelinek's writing and her place within current international debates on feminism…
Erklar mir Liebe
Elfriede Jelinek
Weibliches Textbegehren bei Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlen Haushofer und Unica Zurn
Ludwig Tiecks Des Lebens Überfluß
Jenseits der Spiegel kein Land
A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler
Marlene Streeruwitz
In Memoriam
In Memoriam:Jens Rieckmann Imke Meyer Jens Rieckmann died on December 8, 2013. He was only sixty-nine years old—too young to pass away and to leave behind his beloved partner of forty-three years, David Perkins; his many friends; his books; and his home with its well-stocked kitchen and its beautifully tended garden in Amherst, New Hampshire. But congestive heart failure cut short the life of one who touched many of us—with his intellect as much …
Forum
On the curiously queer realism of Adalbert Stifter's Bunte Steine
Is it curious to argue that Adalbert Stifter's story collection Bunte Steine is queer? Published in December 1852 (and dated to 1853) in the wake of Stifter's ultimately critical stance toward the 1848 revolution, and introduced by a Vorrede that famously speaks of the story collection's search for a “sanfte[s] Gesez” (Stifter 12), it would at first glance seem to resist such a reading. Of course, for decades now, Stifter scholarship has highligh…
Introduction
“Vor dem Gesetz steht ein Türhüter“ (Drucke 267). The famous first sentence of Kafka's parable “Vor dem Gesetz” appears on the page as a literal Feststellung, a frozen constellation that will expand into an eternal present for the Mann vom Lande who approaches the Türhüter to ask for entry into the law. The Mann vom Lande is not granted entry and will spend year after year, the remainder of his life, waiting for a change in the situation—which, o…
Ghosts in the Machine
The writings of Franz Kafka open, perhaps precisely because of their temporal distance to our present, a unique window onto the nexus of power, material, and the human that constitutes AI today. Anxiety and Unbehagen [discontent] are states of mind that often grip both Kafka and his characters in an early-20th-century world increasingly dependent upon and perceived through the lens of disembodied communication and technology. But can we draw a li…
Art (12 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (12 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (3 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (3 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (3 works)