Carolin Duttlinger

Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9780192856302
• ISBN-10: 0192856308
• Artikelnr.: 66122038

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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