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Photography (2017)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2017). Photography. In C. Duttlinger (Ed.), Franz Kafka in Context (117-127). Cambridge University Press

Taking Time: Paul Kranzler and the Photography of Slowness (2017)
Journal Article
Long, J. (2017). Taking Time: Paul Kranzler and the Photography of Slowness. Oxford German Studies, 46(3), 329-343. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2017.1345436

Theorists of social acceleration have highlighted the tendency of social processes to speed up, both in Western societies, and increasingly also in the developing world. In this vein, theorists seeking to differentiate the postmodern from the modern... Read More about Taking Time: Paul Kranzler and the Photography of Slowness.

Photography and the First World War (2017)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2017). Photography and the First World War. In A. Einhaus, & K. Baxter (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts (385-401). Edinburgh University Press

Faces. Antlitz and Gesicht in the Weimar Republic Photobook (2017)
Journal Article
Long, J. (2017). Faces. Antlitz and Gesicht in the Weimar Republic Photobook. Monatshefte (Madison, Wis. 1946. Online), 109(2), 201-214. https://doi.org/10.3368/m.109.2.201

It is widely accepted that the Weimar Republic witnessed an upsurge in interest in physiognomy. However, once physiognomy is allied with the technical media, the situation is complicated by an ambiguity that arises as to where the signifying power li... Read More about Faces. Antlitz and Gesicht in the Weimar Republic Photobook.

Reisen (2017)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2017). Reisen. In C. Oelschlaeger, & M. Niehaus (Eds.), W. G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung (158-166). Metzler

In the Contact Zone: W.G. Sebald and the Ethnographic Imagination. (2011)
Journal Article
Long, J. (2011). In the Contact Zone: W.G. Sebald and the Ethnographic Imagination. Journal of European Studies, 41(3-4), 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244111413706

In this essay, I address the question of Sebald’s interactions with ethnography from three interlinked perspectives. I begin by analysing Sebald’s reading of ethnographic texts in the 1970s and 1980s, using his own annotated copies of works by Claude... Read More about In the Contact Zone: W.G. Sebald and the Ethnographic Imagination..

Bernhard, Frost (2010)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2010). Bernhard, Frost. In P. Hutchinson, & M. Minden (Eds.), Landmarks in the German Novel (2) (7-24). Peter Lang

W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist. (2010)
Book Chapter
Long, J. (2010). W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist. In M. Zisselsberger (Ed.), The Undiscover'd Country: W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (63-91). Camden House

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots (2009)
Book
Long, J., Noble, A., & Welch, E. (Eds.). (2009). Photography: Theoretical Snapshots. Routledge

Over the past 25 years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. Ph... Read More about Photography: Theoretical Snapshots.

W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity (2007)
Book
Long, J. (2007). W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633876.001.0001

Offering a unique and original reading of Sebald's dazzling oeuvre, this title argues that his work is concerned first and foremost with the problem of modernity. It focuses in particular on the numerous archival institutions and processes that lie a... Read More about W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity.

Thomas Bernhard's Die Macht der Gewohnheit. (2006)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2006). Thomas Bernhard's Die Macht der Gewohnheit. In P. Hutchinson (Ed.), Landmarks in German Comedy (211-226). Lang

Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those which are still read or regularly performed all have a serious purpose, and this collection o... Read More about Thomas Bernhard's Die Macht der Gewohnheit..

The Austrian Novel since 1945. (2006)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2006). The Austrian Novel since 1945. In K. Kohl, & R. Robertson (Eds.), A History of Austrian Literature (223-245). Camden House

20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian liter... Read More about The Austrian Novel since 1945..

Disziplin und Geständnis: Ansätze zu einer Foucaultschen Sebald-Lektüre. (2006)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2006). Disziplin und Geständnis: Ansätze zu einer Foucaultschen Sebald-Lektüre. In C. Öhlschläger, & M. Niehaus (Eds.), W.G. Sebald. Politische Archäologie und melancholische Bastelei (217-237). Erich Schmidt Verlag

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge namhafter Forscherinnen und Forscher, die das uvre W.G. Sebalds jenseits der Analysemuster "Trauma und "Holocaust neu zu gewichten versuchen: Sebalds Spurensicherung kollektiver und individueller Katastrophen... Read More about Disziplin und Geständnis: Ansätze zu einer Foucaultschen Sebald-Lektüre..

Von Gesellschaftskritik zur Darstellungskritik: Frauengestalten in den biografischen Texten Dieter Kühns. (2005)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2005). Von Gesellschaftskritik zur Darstellungskritik: Frauengestalten in den biografischen Texten Dieter Kühns. In C. von Zimmermann, & N. von Zimmermann (Eds.), Frauenbiographik: Lebensbeschreibungen und Porträts (323-335). G. Narr

Biographien von Frauen über Frauen sind besonders in den angelsächsischen Forschungsdebatten wiederholt diskutiert worden. Die achtzehn Studien des vorliegenden Sammelbandes unternehmen in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der bisherigen Diskussion e... Read More about Von Gesellschaftskritik zur Darstellungskritik: Frauengestalten in den biografischen Texten Dieter Kühns..

Intercultural Identities in Norbert Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre and W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten. (2004)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2004). Intercultural Identities in Norbert Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre and W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25(5&6), 512-528

This paper analyses W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants and Norbert Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre from the perspective of intercultural identity. In Sebald's work, intercultural identity emerges as a political crisis that leads to a series of devastating pe... Read More about Intercultural Identities in Norbert Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre and W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten..

W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. (2004)
Book
Long, J. J., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2004). W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. Edinburgh University Press

This collection of critical essays (and one long poem by George Szirtes) situates Sebald’s work within the context of European literary history and contemporary cultural theory. A variety of perspectives are adopted, including ecocriticism (Colin Rio... Read More about W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion..

Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory (2003)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2003). Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory. Austrian Studies, 11(1), 85-101

Hans Lebert’s Die Wolfshaut [The Wolf ’s Fell, 1960] and Gerhard Fritsch’s Fasching [Shrovetide, 1967] are powerful narratives that address the continued existence of the fascist mentality in 1950s rural Austria. Though both contain allusions to Germ... Read More about Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory.

History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten (2003)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2003). History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten. Modern Language Review, 98(1), 117-137

The function of photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten goes beyond the merely illustrative. The photographs that are handed down to the narrator in the course of his researches are read in terms of postmemory and the affiliative gaze, both... Read More about History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten.

'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung. (2002)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2002). 'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung. Modern Austrian literature, 35(3/4), 1-17

By examining the function of photography within the narrative economy of Bernhard's last published novel, Ausloschung, and within the psychic economy of its narrator, Franz-Josef Murau, this article posits that photography is a social practice by mea... Read More about 'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung..

Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Thomas Bernhard's Fiction. (2002)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2002). Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Thomas Bernhard's Fiction. In M. Konzett (Ed.), Companion to Thomas Bernhard (187-208). Camden House

Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he is now regarded as a major European figure. Bernhard emerged in the 1960s as one of Austria's major writers, challeng... Read More about Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Thomas Bernhard's Fiction..

Power, Desire, Performance: Narrative Exchanges in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Masante. (2001)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2001). Power, Desire, Performance: Narrative Exchanges in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Masante. Neophilologus, 85(4), 601-619. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1011876823062

Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Masante represents a challenge to traditional narrative theory because it does not lend itself to interpretation in terms of the dominant story-discourse dichotomy. Recent theoretical work, however, has stressed the transactio... Read More about Power, Desire, Performance: Narrative Exchanges in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Masante..

Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn. (1999)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1999). Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn. In J. Sandford (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge

This user-friendly encyclopedia on German culture is part of Routledges Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture series (following Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, LJ 10/1/98). Resourceful and well balanced, it was compiled by some 159 schol... Read More about Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn..

Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine. (1999)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1999). Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine. In N. E. Thomas (Ed.), German at the Millennium (243-269). Durham Modern Languages Series

GM8: German Studies at the Millenium. German Studies at the Millenium. Edited by Neil Thomas. The essays in this volume give some sense of the range of research and teaching interests in German departments in tertiary education, and demonstrate the e... Read More about Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine..

Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante. (1999)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (1999). Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante. German Life and Letters, 52(4), 457-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00146

The existing criticism of Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante has categorised the narrative form of the texts as either 'musical', 'spatial', or 'stream-of-consciousness'. All three approaches, however, fail to take account of the inescapably... Read More about Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante..

History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie. (1998)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1998). History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie. In S. Parkes, J. Preece, & A. Williams (Eds.), Whose Story? Continuities in Contemporary German-language Literature (31-50). Peter Lang

These essays by British, German, and Austrian scholars explore the salient features of a literature reviving after a period of de-stabilization which was at once political and aesthetic. German unity coincided with generational changes among writers,... Read More about History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie..

Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties. (1998)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (1998). Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties. In S. Giles, & R. Livingstone (Eds.), Bertold Brecht Centenary Essays. Rodopi

The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neg... Read More about Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties..