Tender Gaze

MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University. JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).

• Introduction: The Tender Gaze - Muriel Cormican and Jennifer Marston William1: Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema - Muriel Cormican2: The Tender Gaze, Embodied Politics, and Perspective-Taking in German Postdramatic Theater - Jennifer Marston William3: Face to Face: Race, Gender, and the Gaze in Mo Asumang's Die Arier - Nancy Nenno4: "Risse, hinter denen man einen Kern entdeckt, der so ähnlich ist wie die Herzen von uns allen": The Tender Gaze in Umut Dağ's Risse im Beton - Nikhil Sathe5: Looking through the Eyes of Empathy: Encouraging a Culture of Caring and Compassion in Doris Dörrie's Keiner liebt mich - Erika Nelson Mukherjee6: The Tender and Transgressive Beast Within: Escape Narratives in Films by Krebitz, Stuber, and Speckenbach - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien7: Looking at Looking in Margarethe von Trotta's Das Versprechen - John Blair8: A Queer Phenomenology of Gender in Maren Ade's Alle Anderen and Toni Erdmann - Gary Schmidt9: Rilke's "Schauen" - Lorna Martens10: Pity Stares or Tender Gaze? Seeing Disability in Nineteenth-Century Austrian and German Literature - Anna-Rebecca Nowicki11: The Sociohistorical and Gendered Implications of Gazing Tenderly in Ludwig Tieck's "Liebeszauber" - Joseph Rockelmann12: Mothering, Animals, and the Surveillance State in the Anthropocene: An Ecofeminist Reading of Birgit Vanderbeke's Die Frau mit dem Hund - Christina WeilerNotes on the ContributorsIndex

As an homage to Cormican's insightful concept of the tender gaze, this volume succeeds grandly and deserves a wide readership. The tender gaze has many important applications and provides a fresh lens through which to contemplate a range of works.