Outputs (44)

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..

Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe: Photography, Narrative, and the Claims of Postmemory (2006)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2006). Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe: Photography, Narrative, and the Claims of Postmemory. In A. Fuchs, M. Cosgrove, & G. Grote (Eds.), German memory contests : the quest for identity in literature, film, and discourse since 1990 (147-165). Camden House

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..

Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits. (2005)
Book
Long, J. J., & Knight, P. (Eds.). (2005). Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits. 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 Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits..

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..

The Lost Gender Politics of Katharina Blum; or, Wie Gewalt entstehen und wie sie verführen kann. (2002)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2002). The Lost Gender Politics of Katharina Blum; or, Wie Gewalt entstehen und wie sie verführen kann. In A. Schwartz, & F. de Diego (Eds.), Rethinking Violence and Patriarchy for the New Millennium (45-61). University of Ottawa Press

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..

Compensation for History? Dieter Kühn's Beethoven und der schwarze Geiger. (2001)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2001). Compensation for History? Dieter Kühn's Beethoven und der schwarze Geiger. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 54, 111-127

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..

The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function (2001)
Book
Long, J. J. (2001). The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function. Camden House

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is one of the most important writers of the postwar period, not only in his native Austria, but throughout Europe. Almost all his works have been translated into English, and his novels, plays, and non-fiction works have w... Read More about The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function.

Resisting Bernhard: Women and Violence in Das Kalkwerk, Ja and Auslöschung. (2001)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2001). Resisting Bernhard: Women and Violence in Das Kalkwerk, Ja and Auslöschung. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 37(1), 33-52

Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke: Two Best-Selling Responses to the Holocaust. (2000)
Book Chapter
Long, J. J. (2000). Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke: Two Best-Selling Responses to the Holocaust. In S. Parkes, J. Preece, & A. Williams (Eds.), German Language Literature Today: International and Popular? (49-66). Peter Lang

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..