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

Leslie Adelson

ISBN 10: 3110523841 / ISBN 13: 9783110523843

Verlag: De Gruyter, De Gruyter, 2017

Beschreibung

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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783110523843

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense : Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form
• Verlag: De Gruyter, De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3110523841
• ISBN-13: 9783110523843
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 236B x 160 H x 23 T Millimeter Breite: 236 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 23 mm
• Gewicht: 627 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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