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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..