German: Recent submissions
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Worthy Words: The Rhetoric of Speeches in Support of Exhibitions about National Socialism
(Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), 1 October 2022)History exhibitions about National Socialism in Germany are generally endorsed by invited dignitaries who deliver speeches at the opening ceremony. Aside from a negative comment that such speeches are ‘inhaltlich völlig ... -
Invoking Voids in the Archive
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The potency of the butterfly: The reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s animal experiments in German sexology around 1920
(SAGE Publications, 4 June 2020)This article considers the sexual politics of animal evidence in the context of German sexology around 1920. In the 1910s, the German-Jewish geneticist Richard B. Goldschmidt conducted experiments on the moth Lymantria ... -
Dreams in the Novel. The Dream as mise-en-abîme in Jean Paul, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
(Königshausen & Neumann, 31 December 2020)This essay explores the function and aesthetics of dreams in novels from three different centuries which all present their characters against the backdrop of violent world events. The essay argues that the dreams in each ...