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Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond

Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvBarbara N. Nagel,Imke Meyer

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Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear enough. The reality, however, tends to be more complicated. We are often faced with gestures and utterances that are difficult to interpret; we thus find ourselves wondering about the affective force of what has just been said: "Was that an insult?" "Flirtation?" "Aggression?" Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond looks at three interlocking forms of social violence--flirtation, passive aggression, and domestic violence. In order to understand their circulation, it traces their literary-historical genealogy in German realism and modernism--in scenes from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Robert Walser, and Franz Kafka, covering a historical period from the middle of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century. Reading realist and modernist literature through 21st-century affect theory and vice versa, the analyses collected in this book show the deep literary history of our current cultural predicaments and predilections.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-17
Mått140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in German Studies
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501352713

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AcknowledgementsAuthor’s Note1 IntroductionPart I FLIRTATION2 “Love Exploded on a Time-Fuse”: Flirtation and Critical Theory from Realism to #MeTooPart 2 PASSIVE AGGRESSION3 Twice-Read Love Letters: The Ambiguities of Epistolary ViolencePart 3 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE4 Home in Hiding: Scenes of Domestic ViolencePart 4 SYMPHONIC AGGRESSION5 “What Murderously Peaceful People There Are”: On Aggression in Robert Walser6 Conclusion IndexBibliography

[A] daringly original, elegantly written, rigorous, and witty book ... Nagel’s slim book is a power tool with a broad range of applications. It combines historical with formal (in particular, narratological and rhetorical) analysis of realist and modernist works in tandem and considers intimate verbal and physical aggression, in its larger social context, as an emotional phenomenon, thus drawing on and contributing to affect studies. The result is a wealth of insights. … For somewhat different reasons, contemporary feminism, literary studies, and affect studies all need a high tolerance for and a strong practice of ambiguity. Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond intervenes at the intersection of these three fields to sharpen our sensorium for the workings of ambiguity. This is a brilliantly structured and deftly argued book that models a new kind of scholarship: rigorously formalist and politically relevant.