Habituation in German Modernism - Embodied Cognition in Literature and Thought

Investigates the relationship of early twentieth-century German literature and thought with contemporary cognitive studies and posits a new theory of modernism.

List of contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: "Habit Has Not Yet Done Its Work"
1. Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit: Situating Ourselves; Worlding the Body
2. Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge: Writing as Practice
3. Georg Kaiser's Von morgens bis mitternachts and Karlheinz Martin's Film Adaptation: Ecstatic Experience
4. Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Affordances of Others
5. Walter Benjamin's Einbahnstraße and Its Nachtragsliste: Critical Responsiveness
6. Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel: Warmth
7. Evolving Form
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Translation of "Duitsche Literatuur" (1929) by Chris de Graaff
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Meindert Peters

Product details

• Authors: Dr Meindert Peters, Meindert Peters
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2024
• EAN: 9781640141629
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-162-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies