Amrei Fuchs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 138596 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amrei Fuchs |
| PRENOMES | Amrei |
| SOBRENOME | Fuchs |
| ASSINATURA | FUCHS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2653-1534 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Robert Walser's ‘Bleistiftweg’
This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived nature of public attention, my article shows how Walser aims to recover poetic attention through a preca…
Écologie intégrale, quelle place dans l’Église
Pour l’écologie intégrale et sa légitimité dans la sphère ecclésiale, il reste encore une place à conforter dans toutes les réalités et dimensions de l’Église. Sept années après l’exceptionnelle réception de l’encyclique Laudato si’ du pape François par les chrétiens de toutes confessions, beaucoup de catholiques restent frileux et parfois se tiennent à l’écart de ce qui reste un « sujet » de discussion ou d’une éventuelle mobilisation. Malheureu…
On Futures and Endings
The article examines the changing relationship of the present to the future from a narratological perspective. It argues that three dominant narrative schemas structure the contemporary experiences of temporality in the Western social imaginary: the modern crisis narrative, the apocalyptic narrative, and the chronic crisis narrative. In its first part, the article shows how the modern sense of crisis, which emerged in the late eighteenth century,…
Chronic Crisis Novels and the Quest for “the Good-Enough Life”
This article discusses the literary engagement with chronic crises as the prevailing condition of the early twenty-first century. Chronic crisis narration dislodges the narrative modes and epistemological frames of modern crisis scenarios: crisis no longer designates the experience of a decisive tipping point after a climactic build-up but rather an enduring state of extremity, requiring uninterrupted resilience. The chronic crisis novel experime…
Josiane Ranguin, Mediating the Windrush Children. Caryl Phillips and Horace Ove
The publisher, Peter Lang, has brought out a new series of books, shorter in length than the traditional academic work, stating that “this concise model gives researchers the chance to publish their time-sensitive research, open a forum for debate, and create a greater impact.” That Josiane Raguin’s Mediating the Windrush Children should find its place within this “time-sensitive” collection may seem at first strange in that the writing she refer…
Shane Weller, Language and Negativity in European Modernism
Bildung , Negative Exceptionalism, and the End of Genealogy in Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten
Focusing on the servant, this article analyzes figurations of disobedience in Robert Walser’s novel Jakob von Gunten (1909) in dialogue with formal genre conventions. Jakob von Gunten: Ein Tagebuch presents itself as the diary of the eponymous protagonist who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, enters a school for servants in Berlin to break with his aristocratic lineage. In contrast to the narrative arc of the Bildungsroman and Entwicklu…
Resonance
This article offers a critical reading of Hartmut Rosa's theory of social resonance in dialogue with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The article shows that the notion of resonance is meant to correct the inherent determinism which characterized Rosa's earlier work on acceleration. As a responsive mode of being in the world, resonance stands in a dialectical relationship to alienation, redressing the Cartesian split between mind and body. Explor…
Precarious Times
This book explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. Wh…
Precarious Times
Defending Lateness
As the flip side of acceleration, lateness and slowness disrupt the relentless logic of the modernizing project by critiquing the harnessing of attention that is a hallmark of modernity's high-speed society. This article debates three prominent modes of lateness around 1900 that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, th…
An Awareness of What Is Missing
Engaging with the current debate on secularism and the new religious turn in contemporary German literature, my paper explores the interdependence of voyeurism and transcendence in Arnold Stadler's Sehnsucht. Versuch über das erste Mal and Salvatore . Stadler's works articulate a poetics of longing that encompasses both the carnal and the transcendental. While the first part analyses the enmeshing of the protagonist's sexually charged scopophilic…
After the Dresden Bombing
Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investig
Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm
This article investigates how the Dresden of Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm (The Tower, 2008) creates a complex psychotopography of the German Democratic Republic through an ethnographically inflected mode of realism. Tracing how the main localities map out the hidden social and political conflicts that finally erupt in the revolution of 1989, the article foregrounds three modes of cultural representation that produce three versions of cultural history.…
Gendered Heimat Discourse and the Poetics of the ‘Gedehnter Blick’ in Wilhelm Ganazino's Mittelmäβiges Heimweh
This article discusses Wilhelm Genazino's poetics of the ‘prolonged gaze’ as a response to the rapid production of social and cultural obsolescence in our technology-driven age. It shows how Genazino's protagonists attune their idiosyncratic perception to objects and events that normally lie below the threshold of perception. In this way they cultivate a state of perplexity that allows them to break with habitualised patterns of perceiving and in…
How Willing Are You to Accept Sexual Requests from Slightly Unattractive to Exceptionally Attractive Imagined Requestors
Ehrlich, du lügst wie gedruckt’
This paper discusses the recent media‐fuelled controversy over Günter Grass's revelation that he served in the SS at the end of the Second World War. Analysing the different generational positions of the main actors in this debate, I argue that the controversy marks the end of the intellectual prominence of the Hitler Youth generation and a significant shift in German memory politics. The paper then analyses the key tropes that guide and justify …
From ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ to Generational Memory Contests in Günter Grass, Monika Maron and Uwe Timm
Against the backdrop of the proliferation of trauma theory in public and academic debates, the paper argues that in spite of a recent trend to question the canonised discourse of contrition, German discussions about the legacy of the Nazi past are still largely dominated by the following two paradigms: a first psychoanalytic narrative tells a drama of repression, acting out and repetition compulsion, and a second narrative then restores the Enlig…
Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte
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On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
Cultural memory
Phantomspuren’
Die vorliegende Lektüre von Sebalds Roman Austerlitz beschäftigt sich mit dem Entwurf eben jenes ethisch motivierten Erinnerungskonzepts, das für die Prosa Sebalds insgesamt konstitutiv ist. Es geht damit im Folgenden um die Frage, wie der Anspruch auf eine Platzhalterschaft für die Opfer der Geschichte erzählerisch umgesetzt wird, oder in Austerlitzens eigenen Worten, um die ‘Schmerzensspuren, die sich in unzähligen feinen Linien durch die Gesch…
Towards an Ethics of Remembering
Engaging with current theories of cultural memory, this article combines a largely phenomenological with a psychoanalytic perspective in order to address those alternative modes of cultural transmission that communicate through the unsaid, the sous-entendu and silence. Questioning the sufficiency of narratalogical models of cultural memory, the article focuses on memory as a rupture of presence with a view to outlining an ethically driven theory …
Ghetto Writing
The Frankfurt Judengasse in eyewitness accounts from the 17th to the 19th century, Eoin Bourke enlightened and romantic views of the ghetto - David Friedlander vs Heinrich Heine, Ritchie Robertson reclaiming the location - Leopold Kompert's ghetto fiction in post-colonial perspective, Florian Krobb German versus jargon - language and Jewish identity in German ghetto writing, Gabriele von Glasenapp eastern Jews and the sociology of nationalism, Ch…
Ghetto Writing
Resonance
This article offers a critical reading of Hartmut Rosa's theory of social resonance in dialogue with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The article shows that the notion of resonance is meant to correct the inherent determinism which characterized Rosa's earlier work on acceleration. As a responsive mode of being in the world, resonance stands in a dialectical relationship to alienation, redressing the Cartesian split between mind and body. Explor…
How Willing Are You to Accept Sexual Requests from Slightly Unattractive to Exceptionally Attractive Imagined Requestors
From ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ to Generational Memory Contests in Günter Grass, Monika Maron and Uwe Timm
Against the backdrop of the proliferation of trauma theory in public and academic debates, the paper argues that in spite of a recent trend to question the canonised discourse of contrition, German discussions about the legacy of the Nazi past are still largely dominated by the following two paradigms: a first psychoanalytic narrative tells a drama of repression, acting out and repetition compulsion, and a second narrative then restores the Enlig…
On Futures and Endings
The article examines the changing relationship of the present to the future from a narratological perspective. It argues that three dominant narrative schemas structure the contemporary experiences of temporality in the Western social imaginary: the modern crisis narrative, the apocalyptic narrative, and the chronic crisis narrative. In its first part, the article shows how the modern sense of crisis, which emerged in the late eighteenth century,…
Defending Lateness
As the flip side of acceleration, lateness and slowness disrupt the relentless logic of the modernizing project by critiquing the harnessing of attention that is a hallmark of modernity's high-speed society. This article debates three prominent modes of lateness around 1900 that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, th…
Ehrlich, du lügst wie gedruckt’
This paper discusses the recent media‐fuelled controversy over Günter Grass's revelation that he served in the SS at the end of the Second World War. Analysing the different generational positions of the main actors in this debate, I argue that the controversy marks the end of the intellectual prominence of the Hitler Youth generation and a significant shift in German memory politics. The paper then analyses the key tropes that guide and justify …
Phantomspuren’
Die vorliegende Lektüre von Sebalds Roman Austerlitz beschäftigt sich mit dem Entwurf eben jenes ethisch motivierten Erinnerungskonzepts, das für die Prosa Sebalds insgesamt konstitutiv ist. Es geht damit im Folgenden um die Frage, wie der Anspruch auf eine Platzhalterschaft für die Opfer der Geschichte erzählerisch umgesetzt wird, oder in Austerlitzens eigenen Worten, um die ‘Schmerzensspuren, die sich in unzähligen feinen Linien durch die Gesch…
The Market Theatre
Da Hitler Zu Ermordungszwecken Nach Und Nach Alle Juden Dringend Braucht’
Ghetto Writing
Towards an Ethics of Remembering
Engaging with current theories of cultural memory, this article combines a largely phenomenological with a psychoanalytic perspective in order to address those alternative modes of cultural transmission that communicate through the unsaid, the sous-entendu and silence. Questioning the sufficiency of narratalogical models of cultural memory, the article focuses on memory as a rupture of presence with a view to outlining an ethically driven theory …
Ghetto Writing
The Frankfurt Judengasse in eyewitness accounts from the 17th to the 19th century, Eoin Bourke enlightened and romantic views of the ghetto - David Friedlander vs Heinrich Heine, Ritchie Robertson reclaiming the location - Leopold Kompert's ghetto fiction in post-colonial perspective, Florian Krobb German versus jargon - language and Jewish identity in German ghetto writing, Gabriele von Glasenapp eastern Jews and the sociology of nationalism, Ch…
On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
Cultural memory
Phantomspuren’
Die vorliegende Lektüre von Sebalds Roman Austerlitz beschäftigt sich mit dem Entwurf eben jenes ethisch motivierten Erinnerungskonzepts, das für die Prosa Sebalds insgesamt konstitutiv ist. Es geht damit im Folgenden um die Frage, wie der Anspruch auf eine Platzhalterschaft für die Opfer der Geschichte erzählerisch umgesetzt wird, oder in Austerlitzens eigenen Worten, um die ‘Schmerzensspuren, die sich in unzähligen feinen Linien durch die Gesch…
Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte
We’ve built this digital research platform to provide academics everywhere with fast, stable and secure digital access to our library of over 110,000 scholarly books and 800,000 journal articles. We’ve tested the platform in close cooperation with leading academic institutions. If you have any questions or you notice something doesn’t quite work as it should, please visit our Help/FAQ page and let us know.
From ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ to Generational Memory Contests in Günter Grass, Monika Maron and Uwe Timm
Against the backdrop of the proliferation of trauma theory in public and academic debates, the paper argues that in spite of a recent trend to question the canonised discourse of contrition, German discussions about the legacy of the Nazi past are still largely dominated by the following two paradigms: a first psychoanalytic narrative tells a drama of repression, acting out and repetition compulsion, and a second narrative then restores the Enlig…
Ehrlich, du lügst wie gedruckt’
This paper discusses the recent media‐fuelled controversy over Günter Grass's revelation that he served in the SS at the end of the Second World War. Analysing the different generational positions of the main actors in this debate, I argue that the controversy marks the end of the intellectual prominence of the Hitler Youth generation and a significant shift in German memory politics. The paper then analyses the key tropes that guide and justify …
How Willing Are You to Accept Sexual Requests from Slightly Unattractive to Exceptionally Attractive Imagined Requestors
Gendered Heimat Discourse and the Poetics of the ‘Gedehnter Blick’ in Wilhelm Ganazino's Mittelmäβiges Heimweh
This article discusses Wilhelm Genazino's poetics of the ‘prolonged gaze’ as a response to the rapid production of social and cultural obsolescence in our technology-driven age. It shows how Genazino's protagonists attune their idiosyncratic perception to objects and events that normally lie below the threshold of perception. In this way they cultivate a state of perplexity that allows them to break with habitualised patterns of perceiving and in…
After the Dresden Bombing
Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investig
Psychotopography and Ethnopoetic Realism in Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm
This article investigates how the Dresden of Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm (The Tower, 2008) creates a complex psychotopography of the German Democratic Republic through an ethnographically inflected mode of realism. Tracing how the main localities map out the hidden social and political conflicts that finally erupt in the revolution of 1989, the article foregrounds three modes of cultural representation that produce three versions of cultural history.…
An Awareness of What Is Missing
Engaging with the current debate on secularism and the new religious turn in contemporary German literature, my paper explores the interdependence of voyeurism and transcendence in Arnold Stadler's Sehnsucht. Versuch über das erste Mal and Salvatore . Stadler's works articulate a poetics of longing that encompasses both the carnal and the transcendental. While the first part analyses the enmeshing of the protagonist's sexually charged scopophilic…
Defending Lateness
As the flip side of acceleration, lateness and slowness disrupt the relentless logic of the modernizing project by critiquing the harnessing of attention that is a hallmark of modernity's high-speed society. This article debates three prominent modes of lateness around 1900 that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, th…
Precarious Times
This book explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. Wh…
Precarious Times
Bildung , Negative Exceptionalism, and the End of Genealogy in Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten
Focusing on the servant, this article analyzes figurations of disobedience in Robert Walser’s novel Jakob von Gunten (1909) in dialogue with formal genre conventions. Jakob von Gunten: Ein Tagebuch presents itself as the diary of the eponymous protagonist who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, enters a school for servants in Berlin to break with his aristocratic lineage. In contrast to the narrative arc of the Bildungsroman and Entwicklu…
Resonance
This article offers a critical reading of Hartmut Rosa's theory of social resonance in dialogue with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The article shows that the notion of resonance is meant to correct the inherent determinism which characterized Rosa's earlier work on acceleration. As a responsive mode of being in the world, resonance stands in a dialectical relationship to alienation, redressing the Cartesian split between mind and body. Explor…
Josiane Ranguin, Mediating the Windrush Children. Caryl Phillips and Horace Ove
The publisher, Peter Lang, has brought out a new series of books, shorter in length than the traditional academic work, stating that “this concise model gives researchers the chance to publish their time-sensitive research, open a forum for debate, and create a greater impact.” That Josiane Raguin’s Mediating the Windrush Children should find its place within this “time-sensitive” collection may seem at first strange in that the writing she refer…
Shane Weller, Language and Negativity in European Modernism
Chronic Crisis Novels and the Quest for “the Good-Enough Life”
This article discusses the literary engagement with chronic crises as the prevailing condition of the early twenty-first century. Chronic crisis narration dislodges the narrative modes and epistemological frames of modern crisis scenarios: crisis no longer designates the experience of a decisive tipping point after a climactic build-up but rather an enduring state of extremity, requiring uninterrupted resilience. The chronic crisis novel experime…
Écologie intégrale, quelle place dans l’Église
Pour l’écologie intégrale et sa légitimité dans la sphère ecclésiale, il reste encore une place à conforter dans toutes les réalités et dimensions de l’Église. Sept années après l’exceptionnelle réception de l’encyclique Laudato si’ du pape François par les chrétiens de toutes confessions, beaucoup de catholiques restent frileux et parfois se tiennent à l’écart de ce qui reste un « sujet » de discussion ou d’une éventuelle mobilisation. Malheureu…
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