Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form

Leslie A. Adelson

ISBN 10: 3110611082 / ISBN 13: 9783110611083

Published by De Gruyter, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Alexander Kluge's revolutionary storytelling for the 21st-century pivots on the production of anti-realist hope under conditions of real catastrophe. Rather than relying on possibility alone, his experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally accessible to lived experience through narrative form. Innovative close readings and theoretical reflection alike illuminate the dimensional quality of future time in Kluge's radical prose, where off-worldly orientation and unnatural narrative together yield new sensory perspectives on associative networks, futurity, scale, and perspective itself. This study also affords new perspectives on the importance of Kluge's creative writing for critical studies of German thought (including Kant, Marx, Benjamin, and especially Adorno), Holocaust memory, contemporary globalization, literary miniatures, and narrative studies of futurity as form. Cosmic Miniatures contributes an experiential but non-empirical sense of hope to future studies, a scholarly field of pressing public interest in endangered times.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110611082
• ISBN 13: 9783110611083
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 155H x 18D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 471 grams

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Synopsis

Alexander Kluge’s revolutionary storytelling for the 21^st-century pivots on the production of anti-realist hope under conditions of real catastrophe. Rather than relying on possibility alone, his experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally accessible to lived experience through narrative form. Innovative close readings and theoretical reflection alike illuminate the dimensional quality of future time in Kluge’s radical prose, where off-worldly orientation and unnatural narrative together yield new sensory perspectives on associative networks, futurity, scale, and perspective itself. This study also affords new perspectives on the importance of Kluge’s creative writing for critical studies of German thought (including Kant, Marx, Benjamin, and especially Adorno), Holocaust memory, contemporary globalization, literary miniatures, and narrative studies of futurity as form. Cosmic Miniatures contributes an experiential but non-empirical sense of hope to future studies, a scholarly field of pressing public interest in endangered times.

About the Author

Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.