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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander Kluge , Richard LangstonPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.361kg ISBN: 9781501739200ISBN 10: 1501739204 Pages: 552 Publication Date: 15 September 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of Contents"Translator Information List of Illustrations Acknowledgment Part I: Introduction The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge by Richard Langston, by Richard Langston Part II: Literature 1. The Difference: Heinrich von Kleist (1985) 2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001) 3. The Peacemaker (2003) 4. Companions in Now-Time (2007) 5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008) 6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013) 7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016) Part III: Film 8. Word and Film (1965) by Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, and Wilfried Reinke 9. Bits of Conversation (1966) 10. The Realistic Method and the ""Filmic"" (1975) 11. Film: A Utopia (1983) 12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008) 13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012) Part IV: From Classical to New Media: Opera, Television, Internet 14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983/84) 15. On the Expressions ""Media"" and ""New Media"": A Selection of Keywords (1984) 16. Medialization: Musealization (1990) 17. The Opera Machine (2001) 18. Primitive Diversity (2002) 19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010) Part V: Theory 20. The Role of Fantasy (1974) 21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989) 22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of ""Populism"" (1992) 23. War (2001) 24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003) 25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007) 26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009) 27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (2013) 28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016) Index"ReviewsRichard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history. -- Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of <I>The Utopia of Film</I> Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential. -- Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of <I>Walter Benjamin</I> Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of <I>Walter Benjamin</I> Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential. -- Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history. -- Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of <I>The Utopia of Film</I> Author InformationRichard Langston is Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Visions of Violence and translator of History and Obstinacy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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