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  1. Constructing China : Kafka's orientalist discourse

    Goebel, Rolf J., 1952-
    Columbia, SC, USA : Camden House, c1997.

    Goebel studies four representative works by Kafka that explore the problems of the Western representation of the Orient: his 'Description of a Struggle'; several letters to Felice Bauer, offering an interpretation of Chinese poetry in connection with the conflict between writing and Kafka's love for Felice; the canonical story 'The Great Wall of China', parodically appropriating sterotypes of China's stagnant history and authoritarian emperors for a refutation of colonialist ideas of progress; and the sequel 'An Old Manuscript', dramatising China's invasion by foreign powers and the breakdown of crosscultural communication. Elucidating these themes from a broadly comparative perspective, Goebel shows Kafka to be one of German modernism's most intriguing and self-reflective writers on the Orient.ROLF J. GOEBEL is Associate Professor of German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

  2. Klang im Zeitalter technischer Medien : eine Einführung

    Goebel, Rolf J., 1952-
    Wien : Passagen Verlag, [2017]

    "Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in das heterogene Feld der Klangforschung in Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischer Medientheorie, Literatur und Philosophie und beleuchtet die Rolle der auditiven Wahrnehmung angesichts der technischen Reproduzierbarkeit von Musik, Lärm und anderen Klangphänomenen. Unsere postmoderne, spätkapitalistische Gesellschaft treibt ihre Beschleunigung unentwegt durch die Zirkulation medial (re-)produzierter Diskurse, Bilderserien und Lautketten über geopolitische und historische Grenzen voran. In dieser Situation stellt sich die Frage nach dem Verhältnis zwischen technischen Klangmedien und der direkten und unvermittelten Erfahrung auditiver Wirklichkeit. In beiden Hörbereichen durchbricht Klang ? ob in Form von Musik oder sinnlosem Lärm ? die Vorherrschaft des distanziert-objektiven Sehens und die Bedeutungsangebote der verbalen Sprache, um dem Menschen im hörenden Weltverstehen eine andere Wahrheit zu eröffnen. Diese Einführung in ausgewählte Gebiete der Sound Studies erhellt ihre Themen in der Wechselbeziehung zwischen zeitgenössischer Medientheorie einerseits und konkreten Beispielen aus der Literatur- und Philosophiegeschichte andererseits. Die auf Anschaulichkeit und Verständlichkeit zielende Darstellung wendet sich nicht nur an die Fachwissenschaft, sondern will bewusst ein breites Publikum ansprechen."--Page before added title page.

  3. A companion to the works of Walter Benjamin

    Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

    Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography, and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of actualization as its methodological program in offering a new advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture, constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban topographies. The Companion brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors: Dominik Finkelde, Wolfgang Bock, Bernd Witte, Lutz Koepnick, Eric Jarosinski, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Vivian Liska, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub. Rolf J. Goebel is Professor of German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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