Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and - Cultur

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study traces the intertwined histories of attention and distraction from the eighteenth century to the present day.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Virtue, Reflex, Pathology: Attention from the Enlightenment to the Late Nineteenth Century


• 2: Modernity: Fragmentation and Resistance


• 3: Franz Kafka: Diversion, Vigilance, Paranoia


• 4: Psychotechnics: Training the Mind


• 5: Threshold States: Robert Musil


• 6: The Art of Concentration: Self-Help Literature


• 7: Stillness: Weimar Portrait Photography


• 8: Presence of Mind: Walter Benjamin


• 9: Musical Listening between Immersion and Detachment


• 10: Spellbound: Theodor W. Adorno on Music and Style


• 11: Celan, Sebald, Hoppe: Networks of Attention


• Bibliography

About the author

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and Fellow in German at Wadham College. Since 2009, she has been Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. She has published widely on German literature, thought, and culture from the eighteenth century to the present and has also spoken about these topics on radio and television both nationally and internationally. She is also the editor of the book series on Visual Culture, published by Legenda.

Summary

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study traces the intertwined histories of attention and distraction from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Carolin Duttlinger, Carolin (Professor of German Literatur Duttlinger, Duttlinger Carolin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9780198944362
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894436-2
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), german, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual photographers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000