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Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. (2016)
Book
Ward, S. (2016). Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. Amsterdam University Press

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example o... Read More about Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012..

Film, The City and the Museal Gaze (2015)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2015). Film, The City and the Museal Gaze. In P. McIsaac (Ed.), Exhibiting the German Past: Museums, Film and Musealization (21-41). University of Toronto Press

While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the Germ... Read More about Film, The City and the Museal Gaze.

Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin (2015)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2015). Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin. New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, 42(2), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-2889296

Berlin's material past remains obstinately visible despite the predictions of urban theorists about the “overexposed” city. What is “remembering well” in contemporary Berlin: the preservation of a particular form of the city (Berlin's Planwerk Innens... Read More about Encountering Lateness in Postunification Berlin.

Obsolescence and the Cityscape of the former GDR (2010)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2010). Obsolescence and the Cityscape of the former GDR. German Life and Letters, 63(4), 375-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01506.x

Paul Ricoeur claims that it is on the scale of urbanism that we best catch sight of the work of time in space. This article establishes two paradigmatic ways of seeing time in the city, the synchronic urban gaze and the urban memorial gaze, in order... Read More about Obsolescence and the Cityscape of the former GDR.

Globalization and the Remembrance of Violence: Visual Culture, Space and Time in Berlin (2009)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2009). Globalization and the Remembrance of Violence: Visual Culture, Space and Time in Berlin. In C. Lindner (Ed.), Globalization, violence and the visual culture of cities (87-106). Routledge

What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with glo... Read More about Globalization and the Remembrance of Violence: Visual Culture, Space and Time in Berlin.

Ästhetischer Radikalismus in der Posthistoire. Zum literarischen Bild der Geschichte in Reinhard Jirgls Hundsnächte (2007)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2007). Ästhetischer Radikalismus in der Posthistoire. Zum literarischen Bild der Geschichte in Reinhard Jirgls Hundsnächte. In D. Clarke, & A. De Winde (Eds.), Reinhard Jirgl : Perspektiven, Lesarten, Kontexte (151-177). Rodopi

This chapter constitutes a socio-semiotic investigation of the representation of three topoi – the ruin, the railway and the desert – in Reinhard Jirgl's novel Hundsnächte. The analysis highlights Jirgl's diagnosis of a 'posthistorical' society, whic... Read More about Ästhetischer Radikalismus in der Posthistoire. Zum literarischen Bild der Geschichte in Reinhard Jirgls Hundsnächte.

Responsible Ruins: W. G. Sebald and the Responsibility of the German Writer (2006)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2006). Responsible Ruins: W. G. Sebald and the Responsibility of the German Writer. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42(2), 183-199. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql007

THIS OBSERVATION from Andreas Huyssen comes in the context of a generally positive consideration of the work of W. G. Sebald. In the same article, Huyssen expresses admiration for this work, “which gains some of its power precisely because it remains... Read More about Responsible Ruins: W. G. Sebald and the Responsibility of the German Writer.

Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture (2005)
Book
Stewart, J. C., & Ward, S. (Eds.). (2005). Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture. Peter Lang

This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, litera... Read More about Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture.

The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945 (2005)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2005). The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945. Modern Language Review, 100(2), 412-428

Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, literature employed the railway network to investigate the experience of modernity. Rather against expectation, this remains the case after 1945. Informed by Wolfgang Schivelbusch's history of... Read More about The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945.

Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space (2005)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2005). Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space. In S. Arnold-de Simine (Ed.), Memory traces : 1989 and the question of German cultural identity (281-308). Peter Lang

This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a ru... Read More about Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space.

Wolfgang Koeppen: 'Unmasking' the 'Author' of a Holocaust Testimony (2004)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2004). Wolfgang Koeppen: 'Unmasking' the 'Author' of a Holocaust Testimony. In J. Long, & P. Knight (Eds.), Fakes and Forgeries (92-106). Cambridge Scholars Press

The possibility that works of art and literature might be forged and that identity might be faked has haunted the cultural imagination for centuries. That spectre seems to have returned with a vengeance recently, with a series of celebrated hoaxes an... Read More about Wolfgang Koeppen: 'Unmasking' the 'Author' of a Holocaust Testimony.

Ruins and the Imagination of Cultural Tradition after 1945 (2004)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2004). Ruins and the Imagination of Cultural Tradition after 1945. In D. Midgley, & C. Emden (Eds.), German Literature, History, and the Nation (329-354). Peter Lang

This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the ‘Fragile Tradition’ conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking wor... Read More about Ruins and the Imagination of Cultural Tradition after 1945.

Connecting Music and Literature. On the Collaborative Work of Clemens Gadenstätter and Lisa Spalt, and its Interpretation (2004)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2004). Connecting Music and Literature. On the Collaborative Work of Clemens Gadenstätter and Lisa Spalt, and its Interpretation. In J. C. Stewart, & S. Ward (Eds.), Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture. Peter Lang

This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, litera... Read More about Connecting Music and Literature. On the Collaborative Work of Clemens Gadenstätter and Lisa Spalt, and its Interpretation.

Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald (2004)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2004). Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald. In J. Long, & A. Whitehead (Eds.), W.G. Sebald : a critical companion (58-74). Edinburgh University Press

Likened to Proust, Gunter Grass, and Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim. Sebald's refracted and sometimes alienated views of both his... Read More about Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald.