Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz

by Nancy Kaiser, David E. Wellbery (Editor)

- Whatever Moves You: "Experimental Philosophy" and the Literature of Experience in Diderot and Kleist. Claudia Brodsky -- Alexander von Humboldt's Sociopolitical Intentions: Science and Poetics. Gisela Brude-Firnau -- Johann Gottfried Seume's Critique of Traditional Society at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Thomas P. Saine -- "Poesie und Philosophie sollen vereinigt sein": Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde as Experimental Novel. Michael T. Jones -- The Society of the Dead: Allegory and Freedom in Lenau's Poetry. James Rolleston -- Charles Sealsfield: Innovation or Intertextuality? Jeffrey L. Sammons -- Experiment in Denial: A Reading of the Gartenlaube in the Year 1890. Peter Gay -- German Cinema and the Sister Arts: Wegener's The Student of Prague. Brigitte Peucker -- György Kurtág's Kafka Fragmente: Kafka in Pieces. Ruth V. Gross -- Refiguring the Female Body: Two Romanian Avant-Gardists in Search of the Ideal Woman. Amy Colin -- Schiller, Chicago, and China: The Function of Foreign Elements in Brecht's In the Jungle of the Cities. Walter Hinderer -- Joyce Revoiced: German Translations of Ulysses. Mark Harman -- Lüneburg Leatherstocking: Arno Schmidt and James Fenimore Cooper. Ellis Shookman -- Berlin and Böhmen: Bachmann, Benjamin, and the Debris of History. Marilyn Sibley Fries -- Breaking the Code of Fictional Biography: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot. Dorrit Cohn -- Language, Text, and History in Russell Hoban's Riddley. Walker Judith Ryan -- Experience and Reflection: Theodor W. Adorno's Literary Criticism. Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Acoustic Experiment as Ephemeral Spectacle? Musical Futurism, Dada, Cage, and the Talking Heads. Steven Paul Scher -- A Selective Bibliography of Works of Peter Demetz -- Yale Dissertations in German and Comparative Literature Directed by Professor Peter Demetz -- Tabula Gratulatoria.

386 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992