Difference and Orientation : : An Alexander Kluge Reader /

Difference and Orientation : : An Alexander Kluge Reader / / Alexander Kluge; ed. by Richard Langston.

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Kluge, Alexander,
MitwirkendeR:
Kleist, Heinrich von,
Kluge, Alexander,
Langston, Richard,
Reinke, Wilfried,
Reitz, Edgar,
HerausgeberIn:
Langston, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.) :; 22 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator Information
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Introduction
  • The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge
  • Part II. Literature
  • 1. The Difference (1985)
  • 2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001)
  • 3. The Peacemaker (2003)
  • 4. Companions in Now-Time (2007)
  • 5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008)
  • 6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013)
  • 7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016)
  • Part III. Film
  • 8. Word and Film (1965)
  • 9. Bits of Conversation (1966)
  • 10. The Realistic Method and the "Filmic" (1975)
  • 11. Film: A Utopia (1983)
  • 12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008)
  • 13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012)
  • Part IV. From Classical to New Media: Opera, Television, Internet
  • 14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983/84)
  • 15. On the Expressions "Media" and "New Media": A Selection of Keywords (1984)
  • 16. Medialization-Musealization (1990)
  • 17. The Opera Machine (2001)
  • 18. Primitive Diversity (2002)
  • 19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010)
  • Part V. Theory
  • 20. The Role of Fantasy (1974)
  • 21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989)
  • 22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of "Populism" (1992)
  • 23. War (2001)
  • 24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003)
  • 25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007)
  • 26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009)
  • 27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (2013)
  • 28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016)
  • Index

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