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In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being-the open-concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges-what Eric Santner calls the creaturely-have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power and authority. Santner traces this theme of creaturely life from its poetic and philosophical beginnings in the first half of the twentieth century to the writings of the enigmatic German novelist W. G. Sebald. Sebald's entire oeuvre, Santner argues, can be seen as an archive of creaturely life. For Sebald, the work on such an archive was inseparable from his understanding of what it means to engage ethically with another person's history and pain, an engagement that transforms us from indifferent individuals into neighbors. An indispensable book for students of Sebald, On Creaturely Life is also a significant contribution to critical theory.
Melancholy in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Rilke, Rainer Maria, --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Melancholy in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Rilke, René Maria Cäsar, --- Li-erh-kʻo, --- Rielke, Rainer Maria, --- Rilkʻe, Rainŏ Maria, --- Rilḳeh, Rainer Mariyah, --- Rilke, Reiner Marie, --- רילקה, ראינר מריה, --- רילקה, ריינר מריה --- רילקה, ריינר מריה, --- רילקה, רינר מריה --- רילקה, רינר מריה, --- רילקה, רץ מ. --- רילקה, ר.מ --- Benjamin, W. --- Benjamin, Walter --- Sebald, W. G. --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터, --- リルケ, ライナー マリア --- Rilke, Rainer Maria --- consciousness, self, close reading, analysis, analytical, critical, critique, existence, human, life, relationships, biopolitics, biopolitical, power, authority, poetic, philosophical, theory, theoretical, sebald, rilke, benjamin, literary, literature, philosophy, academic, scholarly, research, ethics, neighbors, communal, community, interpersonal.
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Erich Maria Remarque is a writer of great popularity who has rightly been described as a "chronicler of the twentieth century." He is both a German writer and a genuinely international one. Although he spent much of his life in exile from Germany, most of his novels reflect its twentieth-century history: the two world wars and the Weimar and Nazi regimes, and especially their effects on the individual. His portrayals of the lives of refugees from Nazi Germany are especially vivid. His themes are universal, dealing with human relationships, with love in particular, and with the provisional nature of life. Often seen as a one-novel writer due to the immense success of All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque wrote many other novels, major works that have nearly all been filmed and have remained popular. Nor should it be ignored that his works are above all else immensely readable: not a negligible criterion. This new study of Remarque's novels treats them as a chronicle of the century, but also looks at them as works that go beyond the reflection of historical events.
Remarque, Erich Maria, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Remarque, Erich Maria. --- Remarque, Erich Maria --- Remark, Erich Paul --- Remark, Erikh Marii̐a --- Ремарк, Эрих Мария --- Ремарк, Э. М., --- Remarque, E. M. --- Ремарк, Ерих Мария --- Ремаркъ, Ерихъ Мария --- Rimarḳ, Erikh Mariyah --- רמרק, אריך מריא, --- רמרק, אריך מריה, --- רעמארק, עריך מאריא, --- רעמארק, עריק מאריא --- רעמארק, ע. --- רעמארק, ע. מ. --- רימארק, אריך מאריה --- Rimārk, Irīsh Māriyā --- رمارک، اريش ماريا --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Black American Experience. --- Cinematic Representation. --- Erich Maria Remarque. --- Literary Adaptations. --- Love. --- Nazi Regimes. --- One-Novel Writer. --- Popular Literature. --- Provisional Nature of Life. --- Refugees. --- Twentieth Century. --- Weimar. --- World Wars.
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