Clayton Koelb
Biographic Data
| ID | 997622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clayton Koelb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clayton |
| FAMILY NAME | Koelb |
| SIGNATURE | KOELB C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels
Koelb, Clayton. Legendary Figures: Ancient History Modern Novels. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 1998. viii + 186 pp. $40.00. Clayton Koelb's new book consists of series of stimulating, albeit loosely related on Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean, Thomas Mann's Joseph tetralogy, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil, Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, and Christa Wolf's Cassandra.…
Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels
Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels, from Flaubert's Salammbo to Christa Wolf's Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new sense, which arose in the mid-nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert's writings. What is crucial about the …
Politics, Death, and the Devil: Self and Power in Max Weber and Thomas Mann. Harvey Goldman
The Humming Tree: A Study in the History of Mentalities. Norman Simms
Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading
The Language of a Master: Theories of Style and the Late Writing of Henry James
The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice
Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination
Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination
Critique of Cynical Reason. Peter Sloterdijk , Michael Eldred
Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature. Ritchie Robertson
Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy": Notes and Sources
Adorno, Proust, Beckett: Zur Aktualisierung einer alternden Theorie
The Language of Presence in Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision”
John Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision” proposes a linguistic utopia in which ordinary speech, which is composed of signs inevitably possessing an element of distance and “absence,” is replaced by a language (or set of languages) in which the process of signification is set aside in favor of the direct “reading” of the world. Since Varley is fully aware that such a language of presence is incompatible with the structure of the world we live in,…
Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800
Nietzsche, Malerba, and the Aesthetics of Superficiality
Luigi Malerba's book Diario di un sognatore (Diary of a Dreamer)' purports to provide in the main body of the text transcriptions of one year's worth of the author's dreams2 and in its prologue an attempt to reformulate the theory of dreams in nonFreudian or indeed anti-Freudian terms. This attempt is of considerable interest, not only or most importantly for its attack on Freud, but for the theory of reading and indeed the theory of art which un…
"In der Strafkolonie": Kafka and the Scene of Reading
The fabulous execution machine that is the center of attention Kafka's der Strafkolonie stands in [einem] tiefen, sandigen, von kahlen Abhangen ringsum abgeschlossenen Tal.' At the time represented by the narration, this natural theater is almost empty: no one is there except the principal performers themselves, the officer, the traveller, the condemned prisoner, and the soldier charge of the prisoner. But such performances as the one about to ta…
Mann, Hoffmann, and “Callot's Manner”
Le recit court de T. Mann, Der Kleiderschrank (sous-titre eine Geschichte voller Ratsel = une histoire enigmatique) est redevable de beaucoup au recit de E.T.A. Hoffmann: Don Juan et a la technique narrative que H. lui-meme designe par la maniere Callot. Parallele des deux recits
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Mann, Hoffmann, and “Callot's Manner”
Le recit court de T. Mann, Der Kleiderschrank (sous-titre eine Geschichte voller Ratsel = une histoire enigmatique) est redevable de beaucoup au recit de E.T.A. Hoffmann: Don Juan et a la technique narrative que H. lui-meme designe par la maniere Callot. Parallele des deux recits
"In der Strafkolonie": Kafka and the Scene of Reading
The fabulous execution machine that is the center of attention Kafka's der Strafkolonie stands in [einem] tiefen, sandigen, von kahlen Abhangen ringsum abgeschlossenen Tal.' At the time represented by the narration, this natural theater is almost empty: no one is there except the principal performers themselves, the officer, the traveller, the condemned prisoner, and the soldier charge of the prisoner. But such performances as the one about to ta…
Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800
Nietzsche, Malerba, and the Aesthetics of Superficiality
Luigi Malerba's book Diario di un sognatore (Diary of a Dreamer)' purports to provide in the main body of the text transcriptions of one year's worth of the author's dreams2 and in its prologue an attempt to reformulate the theory of dreams in nonFreudian or indeed anti-Freudian terms. This attempt is of considerable interest, not only or most importantly for its attack on Freud, but for the theory of reading and indeed the theory of art which un…
Adorno, Proust, Beckett: Zur Aktualisierung einer alternden Theorie
The Language of Presence in Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision”
John Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision” proposes a linguistic utopia in which ordinary speech, which is composed of signs inevitably possessing an element of distance and “absence,” is replaced by a language (or set of languages) in which the process of signification is set aside in favor of the direct “reading” of the world. Since Varley is fully aware that such a language of presence is incompatible with the structure of the world we live in,…
Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy": Notes and Sources
Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination
Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination
Critique of Cynical Reason. Peter Sloterdijk , Michael Eldred
Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature. Ritchie Robertson
Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading
The Language of a Master: Theories of Style and the Late Writing of Henry James
The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice
Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Politics, Death, and the Devil: Self and Power in Max Weber and Thomas Mann. Harvey Goldman
The Humming Tree: A Study in the History of Mentalities. Norman Simms
Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels
Koelb, Clayton. Legendary Figures: Ancient History Modern Novels. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 1998. viii + 186 pp. $40.00. Clayton Koelb's new book consists of series of stimulating, albeit loosely related on Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean, Thomas Mann's Joseph tetralogy, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil, Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, and Christa Wolf's Cassandra.…
Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels
Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels, from Flaubert's Salammbo to Christa Wolf's Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new sense, which arose in the mid-nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert's writings. What is crucial about the …
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