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The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Cao, Q., & Nitschke, C. (2023). The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree. Life Writing, 20(3), 563-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2151847

This work examines Han Suyin’s representation of her Eurasian identity in relation to her maternal inheritance, focusing on her autobiography The Crippled Tree, the first volume in the series China: Autobiography, History. Drawing on Paul John Eakin’... Read More about The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’s The Crippled Tree.

Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida (2022)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2022). Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 97(2), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2022.2074269

In Sophie von La Roche’s novel Erscheinungen am See Oneida (1797/98), property not only functions as a category that assists the “imposition of the same system of exchange everywhere” (as G. C. Spivak postulates for the processes of globalization); L... Read More about Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida.

Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco (2021)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2022). Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco. Law & Literature, 34(2), 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685x.2021.1885158

The question of how to devise and justify political order for a secular age is still at the heart of political discourse today. Social contracts provided an early political and philosophical answer to these issues, but they also manifested themselves... Read More about Metaphorical Contracts and Games: Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen and Schiller’s Fiesco.

The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism (2018)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2018). The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 87(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2018.1433479

This article scrutinises the aporetic confrontation of different ultimate values in Kleist’s infamous Die Hermannsschlacht, namely nationalism and a basic notion of ‘human rights’. Kleist’s play does not settle for one of these priorities, but concep... Read More about The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of ‘Human Rights’ in the Era of Nationalism.

Friendship (2017)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2017). Friendship. In C. Duttlinger (Ed.), Kafka in Kontext (18-25). CUP

Pole Poppenspäler (2017)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2017). Pole Poppenspäler. In C. Demandt, & P. Theisohn (Eds.), Storm-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. J. B. Metzler

Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations. Humanities, 5(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/h5020045

In his adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, Campe sets out to examine the legitimacy of his contemporary social reality (in Europe in the broadest sense) by tracing its origin back to the most basic roots conceivable. The experimental character of his book... Read More about Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations.

The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623391

This article scrutinises concepts of deregulation against the backdrop of the ‘New Capitalism’ as presented in the episode ‘Hamsterdam’ in the American TV series, The Wire: when the major in charge of the Western District of Baltimore secretly decide... Read More about The free zone: Gang dynamics, de-differentiation, and pseudo-statehood in The Wire..

Bildlichkeit in Büchners 'Dantons Tod'. (2015)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2015). Bildlichkeit in Büchners 'Dantons Tod'. In S. Keppler, & W. G. Schmidt (Eds.), Funktionen von Medialität. Wert- und Identitätsbildungsprozesse zwischen 1815-1848 (77-95). De Gruyter

Chaos und Form, Raum und Ethos in Stifters 'Bunte Steine'. (2015)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2015). Chaos und Form, Raum und Ethos in Stifters 'Bunte Steine'. German Life and Letters, 68(4), 554-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12099

Form, order, and the desire to create structure are ubiquitous in Adalbert Stifter's work, both as theme and in the presentation of his oeuvre. It is striking that quotidian rituals and emergency situations such as thunder and snowstorms are often in... Read More about Chaos und Form, Raum und Ethos in Stifters 'Bunte Steine'..

Corporeality and Emotion in Goethe's 'Wahlverwandtschaften' (2011)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2011). Corporeality and Emotion in Goethe's 'Wahlverwandtschaften'. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 80(1), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.1179/095936811x12949184022123

This article explores the connection between corporeality and emotion in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften, with special emphasis on tableaux vivants. It focuses on the dilemma of a newly emerging concept of love based on physical attraction, which p... Read More about Corporeality and Emotion in Goethe's 'Wahlverwandtschaften'.

Techniken der Raum- und Zeitbeherrschung um 1800: Brentanos und Kleists 'Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft' und Alexander von Humboldts 'Kosmos' (2009)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2009). Techniken der Raum- und Zeitbeherrschung um 1800: Brentanos und Kleists 'Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft' und Alexander von Humboldts 'Kosmos'. In W. Pape (Ed.), Raumkonfigurationen in der Romantik : Eisenacher Kolloquium der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft (95-110). Max Niemeyer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231014.95

Vorwort (2009)
Book Chapter
Martinec, T., & Nitschke, C. (2009). Vorwort. In T. Martinec, & C. Nitschke (Eds.), Familie und Identität in der deutschen Literatur (9-13). Peter Lang

Unterhaltung im Dienst politischer Ideen: Ludwig Achim von Arnims Schattenspiel Das Loch, oder: das wiedergefundene Paradies (2007)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2007). Unterhaltung im Dienst politischer Ideen: Ludwig Achim von Arnims Schattenspiel Das Loch, oder: das wiedergefundene Paradies. In J. Birgfeld, & C. D. Conter (Eds.), Das Unterhaltungsstück um 1800 : literaturhistorische Konfigurationen, Signaturen der Moderne : zur Geschichte des Theaters als Reflexionsmedium von Gesellschaft, Politik und Ästhetik (189-207). Wehrhahn. https://doi.org/10.1515/arb-2012-0016

Die Darstellung des Unlesbaren: Korrespondenzen zwischen Arnims 'Kronenwächtern' und Kafkas 'Schloß' (2006)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2006). Die Darstellung des Unlesbaren: Korrespondenzen zwischen Arnims 'Kronenwächtern' und Kafkas 'Schloß'. Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler, 4/5, 7-20

Der intertextuell und historisch ausgiebigen Recherche nach motivischen Vorlagen zu Kafkas Schloß eine weitere hinzuzufügen, scheint auf den ersten Blick heuristisch unergiebig: Mit dem Verweis auf die Korrespondenzen zwischen L. Achim von Arnims Kro... Read More about Die Darstellung des Unlesbaren: Korrespondenzen zwischen Arnims 'Kronenwächtern' und Kafkas 'Schloß'.

Die legitimatorische Inszenierung von 'Volkspoesie' in Achim von Arnims 'Scherzendem Gemisch von der Nachahmung des Heiligen' (2005)
Book Chapter
Nitschke, C. (2005). Die legitimatorische Inszenierung von 'Volkspoesie' in Achim von Arnims 'Scherzendem Gemisch von der Nachahmung des Heiligen'. In W. Pape (Ed.), Das "Wunderhorn" und die Heidelberger Romantik : Mündlichkeit, Schriftlichkeit, Performanz : Heidelberger Kolloquium der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft (239-254). Niemeyer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915495.239