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

Demetz, Peter; Kaiser, Nancy;

ISBN 10: 0472103091 / ISBN 13: 9780472103096

Published by Univ of Michigan Press, 1992

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First edition 1992, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by Univ of Michigan Press. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, no foxing, not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no shelfwear, no tears, no chips, no edgewear, not clipped. 8vo, IX + 386 pages. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472103091
• ISBN 13: 9780472103096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

- 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.