Christian Kracht‘s Aesthetics

Christian Kracht‘s Aesthetics

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Komfort-Hein, Susanne (Editor), Drügh, Heinz (Editor)
Summary:XI, 270 p. 23 illus., 16 illus. in color.
text
Language:English
Published: Stuttgart : J.B. Metzler : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
European literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Contemporary Literature.
European Literature.
Literary Theory.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05958-1
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. introduction
  • 2. part I. Microaesthetics
  • 3. Christian Kracht's microaesthetics
  • 4. DJ Bobo in Ulan Bataar. A way out of the whole in Christian Kracht's aesthetics?
  • 5. "... a continuing always repeated disturbance". Christian Kracht with Max Bense and Friedrich Schlegel -Response to the contributions of Christoph Kleinschmidt and Maria Kuberg.-6. Part II. Aesthetics of the literary world
  • 7. Aesthetics of paratexts in Christian Kracht. Quotations, cover designs, author figures
  • 8. "In Search of a Character". Christian Kracht's self-staging practices in the authorial photograph
  • 9. The image given and the image taken - Responding to the contributions by Christine Riniker and Ronald Röttel
  • 10. Part III. Aisthesis - Body and Mind
  • 11. Surface aesthetics. The Barbour jacket as a second skin in Christian Kracht's novel Faserland
  • 12. "Nothing is meaningless." On the Relationship between Spirituality and Postmodernism in the Novels of Christian Kracht
  • 13. No Stable Position in Sight - Responding to the Contributions of Julia Bertschik and Robert Hermann
  • 14. Part IV. Aesthetic Mode and Historical Truth
  • 15. Mediologies of the Counterfactual in Christian Kracht's I Will Be Here in Sunshine and in Shadow
  • 16. Of Faded Photographs and Rattling Projectors. On the Anti-Documentary Aesthetic in Christian Krachts Imperium
  • 17. Aesthetic Mode and Historical Truth - Responding to the Contributions of Caspar Battegay and Christoph Schmitz
  • 18. Part V. Exploration of Alternative Aesthetics
  • 19. Of all the novels, I do appreciate the most the interesting ones. Aesthetics of the reserved and poetics of the interesting in Christian Kracht's Die Toten
  • 20. 'In Praise of the Shadow'. Christian Kracht's The Dead as a 'Japanese Aesthetic'
  • 21. "[T]he Scaffolding of the Letter H" - Responding to the Contributions of Marvin Baudisch and Azusa Takata
  • 22. Part VI. Literary Aesthetics
  • 23. "Barbourpapa". A source-philological investigation into the textual genesisof Faserland
  • 24. Self-reference and its disorders. On a socio-political dimension of Christian Kracht's poetics and his novel Imperium (2012)
  • 25. Literary aesthetics and the hermeneutics of the subject: subjectivation in Christian Kracht - Responding to the contributions of Philip Ajouri and Matthias N. Lorenz
  • 26. Part VII. After the Poetics Lecture
  • 27. Variations on an Unavailable Text. Christian Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures
  • 28. Ineffable. Hermeneutics, Poetics and Charlie Chaplin in Christian Kracht
  • 29. Christian Kracht's Postmodern Parodies.

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