Each volume consists of four issues, published in January, April, July and October of each year. ... more Each volume consists of four issues, published in January, April, July and October of each year. Its 1000+ annual pages are divided roughly equally between articles, predominantly on medieval and modern literature in the languages of Europe, and over 500 reviews of ...
This chapter mentions Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, the 12 Monkeys series' creators, who ... more This chapter mentions Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, the 12 Monkeys series' creators, who originally conceived the TV series simply as a time-travelling show with no relation to Terry Gilliam's film 12 Monkeys. It recounts how the 12 Monkeys series started out by ripping off the film's basic plot: a virus that wipes out the planet's population and a team of scientists from the future that send a man back in time to fix it all. It also points out how Cole's death at the airport, the original film's most traumatic scene and driver of its plot, was unceremoniously deleted in the 12 Monkeys series. The chapter discusses the basic premises that the 12 Monkeys series relies on, such as linear time. It explains the central theme of the moralistic drama of the ethical struggle between personal motives and the Greater Good.
This chapter looks at the penultimate scene of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, which shows the bi... more This chapter looks at the penultimate scene of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, which shows the bird's eye shot of young Cole getting in the car and a close-up of his eyes as they follow a plane. It discusses how the mysterious plane scene seems to have bothered viewers a great deal and kept coming up in interviews with Gilliam. It also mentions a scene in 12 Monkeys that seems to offer a final comment on the free will versus determinism dilemma. The chapter analyses how humanity's survival must be purchased with the coin of human misery stretching far into the post-apocalyptic future, which is a concept that is made to be accepted in 12 Monkeys. It mentions Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods from 2012, in which two dying teenagers respond whether it is acceptable to have a world in which humans are capable of the deliberate slaughter of others.
This chapter discusses time travel as the secondary device for exploring the idea of liberty in T... more This chapter discusses time travel as the secondary device for exploring the idea of liberty in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. It analyzes the juxtaposition between free will and determinism, in which the film seems to be caught in something of a bind. It also explains time travel that is one-directional, in which the scientists only ever send people into the past, never into their own future to see if their plan will pan out. The chapter talks about how 12 Monkeys seems to suggest that it is possible to influence the future, which is an idea that is entirely reliant on the illusion of linear time. It examines the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists that centres on a failure to distinguish between that which is known and that which is real.
Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the re... more Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the book analyzes over thirty box-office hits. The authors explore the screen personae of top stars such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and RenZe Zellweger, as well as independent movie queens like Parker Posey and TV heroines like Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A must-read book for all film buffs who are tired of the mixed gender messages of mainstream culture.
The essay investigates father-daughter character constellations in 18th- and 19th-century drama, ... more The essay investigates father-daughter character constellations in 18th- and 19th-century drama, with a symbolic focus on the father's role and a thematic focus on the question of filial disobedience. It asks how playwrights of the age dramatised inflexible gender roles, how or to what extent they 'solved' gender problems in their plays and particularly in their often fraught and contradictory endings, and to what extent these treatments and endings are owed to their dramatic genres. (In German)
This essay offers a new reading of the queens in Schiller's drama 'Maria Stuart&a... more This essay offers a new reading of the queens in Schiller's drama 'Maria Stuart' and how the ideas about femininity and women's ability to rule expressed in these characters were re-imagined in plays by female Schiller-admirers, specifically Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's 'Maria Stuart in Schottland' and Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's 'Elisabeth'. In Italian.
This essay investigates works by three female 18th- and 19th-century writers who were not entirel... more This essay investigates works by three female 18th- and 19th-century writers who were not entirely forgotten, unlike thousands of their colleagues. In the analysed works (1 poem, 1 play and 1 prose text), these authors elaborate on the most important themes influencing their writing, among them anonymity, posterity, and writing for the drawer. The essay argues for a more differentiated reading of the refusal to reveal one's name (anonymity) and the refusal to publish after writing, which can be seen not merely as 'hiding' the author's identity, suppressing her work or admitting its inferiority, but--on the contrary--as a prerequisite for writing at all and, in the final analysis, as an act of liberation.
Pailer, Gaby. Charlotte Schiller: Leben und Schreiben im klassischen Weimar. Darmstadt: Wissensch... more Pailer, Gaby. Charlotte Schiller: Leben und Schreiben im klassischen Weimar. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009. 203 pp. euro39.90 hardcover. Das Leben der Charlotte Schiller (1 766-1826) galt bisher als wenig aufregend, selbst fur ein Frauenleben der Goethezeit. Die ubliche musische Madchenausbildung, von der bei ihr vieles nicht anschlug. Enge Bindung an und doch Rivalitat mit der alteren, schriftstellerisch begabteren Schwester. Ehe mit einem aufstrebenden (spater beruhmten) Dichter, die zunachst als Mesalliance verurteilt wurde. 4 Kinder. Nachlassverwaltung nach dem Tod des beruhmten Dichters. 21 Jahre Witwendasein. Augenleiden. Tod. Dazwischen ein paar Briefe und andere unwesentliche Schriften, die nur interessant sind, sofern sie sich auf ihren Mann beziehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund definiert sich Pailers neue Biographie. Ihr Ziel ist auf dem Buchrucken knapp formuliert: "Gaby Pailer raumt mit angestaubten Mythen auf und stellt Charlotte Schiller erstmals ...
The article analyses the dangers of sexual curiosity amongst pubescent girls in 'archetyp... more The article analyses the dangers of sexual curiosity amongst pubescent girls in 'archetypal' stories--fairy and horror tales--with an emphasis on 'Sneewittchen' by the Brothers Grimm and Brian de Palma's film 'Carrie'. In German.
This article outlines intersections between Albert Friedlander and two other Berliners of the 192... more This article outlines intersections between Albert Friedlander and two other Berliners of the 1920s: the Sass brothers, Berlin’s most daring and beloved crooks, and the Jewish crime writer Walter Serner. It attempts to read their stories as ‘prayers’ or ‘poetry’ in Friedlander’s sense.
Fur die meisten der hier behandelten Autorinnen bedeutete Buhnenschriftstellerei, bzw. Berufsschr... more Fur die meisten der hier behandelten Autorinnen bedeutete Buhnenschriftstellerei, bzw. Berufsschriftstellerei uberhaupt, ein zweifaches Risiko: ein finanzielles (das sie mit ihren mannlichen Kollegen teilten) und ein soziales. Das soziale Risiko versuchten viele durch Benutzung von Pseudonymen, Anonymitat oder pseudonymes Verhalten zu umgehen. Das finanzielle Risiko dagegen schien unuberwindbar: Mir ist keine Autorin bekannt, die sich ausschlieslich von ihrer dramatischen Produktion ernahrte. Einige Autorinnen waren sozial und finanziell abgesichert und schrieben nicht aus Erwerbsgrunden (Amalie von Sachsen, Elisabeth von Rumanien, Katharina II.). Fur viele andere war Schreiben lediglich die zweite Berufswahl: Auguste Gotze war hauptberuflich Konzertsangerin; Elise Schmidt Rezitatorin; Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer Schauspielerin. Wilhelmine von Hillern begann erst nach ihrer Heirat zu schreiben, als sie ihre Karriere als Schauspielerin aufgeben muste; Elisabeth Muller war Lehrerin, bis sie sich aufgrund veranderter okonomischer Verhaltnisse den prekaren Stand als freie Schriftstellerin leisten konnte. Fur sie und unzahlige andere (meist Schauspielerinnen) war der nicht schriftstellerische Beruf die Erwerbstatigkeit; die zweite Karriere lief nebenbei.
Each volume consists of four issues, published in January, April, July and October of each year. ... more Each volume consists of four issues, published in January, April, July and October of each year. Its 1000+ annual pages are divided roughly equally between articles, predominantly on medieval and modern literature in the languages of Europe, and over 500 reviews of ...
This chapter mentions Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, the 12 Monkeys series' creators, who ... more This chapter mentions Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, the 12 Monkeys series' creators, who originally conceived the TV series simply as a time-travelling show with no relation to Terry Gilliam's film 12 Monkeys. It recounts how the 12 Monkeys series started out by ripping off the film's basic plot: a virus that wipes out the planet's population and a team of scientists from the future that send a man back in time to fix it all. It also points out how Cole's death at the airport, the original film's most traumatic scene and driver of its plot, was unceremoniously deleted in the 12 Monkeys series. The chapter discusses the basic premises that the 12 Monkeys series relies on, such as linear time. It explains the central theme of the moralistic drama of the ethical struggle between personal motives and the Greater Good.
This chapter looks at the penultimate scene of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, which shows the bi... more This chapter looks at the penultimate scene of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, which shows the bird's eye shot of young Cole getting in the car and a close-up of his eyes as they follow a plane. It discusses how the mysterious plane scene seems to have bothered viewers a great deal and kept coming up in interviews with Gilliam. It also mentions a scene in 12 Monkeys that seems to offer a final comment on the free will versus determinism dilemma. The chapter analyses how humanity's survival must be purchased with the coin of human misery stretching far into the post-apocalyptic future, which is a concept that is made to be accepted in 12 Monkeys. It mentions Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods from 2012, in which two dying teenagers respond whether it is acceptable to have a world in which humans are capable of the deliberate slaughter of others.
This chapter discusses time travel as the secondary device for exploring the idea of liberty in T... more This chapter discusses time travel as the secondary device for exploring the idea of liberty in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. It analyzes the juxtaposition between free will and determinism, in which the film seems to be caught in something of a bind. It also explains time travel that is one-directional, in which the scientists only ever send people into the past, never into their own future to see if their plan will pan out. The chapter talks about how 12 Monkeys seems to suggest that it is possible to influence the future, which is an idea that is entirely reliant on the illusion of linear time. It examines the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists that centres on a failure to distinguish between that which is known and that which is real.
Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the re... more Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the book analyzes over thirty box-office hits. The authors explore the screen personae of top stars such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and RenZe Zellweger, as well as independent movie queens like Parker Posey and TV heroines like Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A must-read book for all film buffs who are tired of the mixed gender messages of mainstream culture.
The essay investigates father-daughter character constellations in 18th- and 19th-century drama, ... more The essay investigates father-daughter character constellations in 18th- and 19th-century drama, with a symbolic focus on the father's role and a thematic focus on the question of filial disobedience. It asks how playwrights of the age dramatised inflexible gender roles, how or to what extent they 'solved' gender problems in their plays and particularly in their often fraught and contradictory endings, and to what extent these treatments and endings are owed to their dramatic genres. (In German)
This essay offers a new reading of the queens in Schiller's drama 'Maria Stuart&a... more This essay offers a new reading of the queens in Schiller's drama 'Maria Stuart' and how the ideas about femininity and women's ability to rule expressed in these characters were re-imagined in plays by female Schiller-admirers, specifically Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's 'Maria Stuart in Schottland' and Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's 'Elisabeth'. In Italian.
This essay investigates works by three female 18th- and 19th-century writers who were not entirel... more This essay investigates works by three female 18th- and 19th-century writers who were not entirely forgotten, unlike thousands of their colleagues. In the analysed works (1 poem, 1 play and 1 prose text), these authors elaborate on the most important themes influencing their writing, among them anonymity, posterity, and writing for the drawer. The essay argues for a more differentiated reading of the refusal to reveal one's name (anonymity) and the refusal to publish after writing, which can be seen not merely as 'hiding' the author's identity, suppressing her work or admitting its inferiority, but--on the contrary--as a prerequisite for writing at all and, in the final analysis, as an act of liberation.
Pailer, Gaby. Charlotte Schiller: Leben und Schreiben im klassischen Weimar. Darmstadt: Wissensch... more Pailer, Gaby. Charlotte Schiller: Leben und Schreiben im klassischen Weimar. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009. 203 pp. euro39.90 hardcover. Das Leben der Charlotte Schiller (1 766-1826) galt bisher als wenig aufregend, selbst fur ein Frauenleben der Goethezeit. Die ubliche musische Madchenausbildung, von der bei ihr vieles nicht anschlug. Enge Bindung an und doch Rivalitat mit der alteren, schriftstellerisch begabteren Schwester. Ehe mit einem aufstrebenden (spater beruhmten) Dichter, die zunachst als Mesalliance verurteilt wurde. 4 Kinder. Nachlassverwaltung nach dem Tod des beruhmten Dichters. 21 Jahre Witwendasein. Augenleiden. Tod. Dazwischen ein paar Briefe und andere unwesentliche Schriften, die nur interessant sind, sofern sie sich auf ihren Mann beziehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund definiert sich Pailers neue Biographie. Ihr Ziel ist auf dem Buchrucken knapp formuliert: "Gaby Pailer raumt mit angestaubten Mythen auf und stellt Charlotte Schiller erstmals ...
The article analyses the dangers of sexual curiosity amongst pubescent girls in 'archetyp... more The article analyses the dangers of sexual curiosity amongst pubescent girls in 'archetypal' stories--fairy and horror tales--with an emphasis on 'Sneewittchen' by the Brothers Grimm and Brian de Palma's film 'Carrie'. In German.
This article outlines intersections between Albert Friedlander and two other Berliners of the 192... more This article outlines intersections between Albert Friedlander and two other Berliners of the 1920s: the Sass brothers, Berlin’s most daring and beloved crooks, and the Jewish crime writer Walter Serner. It attempts to read their stories as ‘prayers’ or ‘poetry’ in Friedlander’s sense.
Fur die meisten der hier behandelten Autorinnen bedeutete Buhnenschriftstellerei, bzw. Berufsschr... more Fur die meisten der hier behandelten Autorinnen bedeutete Buhnenschriftstellerei, bzw. Berufsschriftstellerei uberhaupt, ein zweifaches Risiko: ein finanzielles (das sie mit ihren mannlichen Kollegen teilten) und ein soziales. Das soziale Risiko versuchten viele durch Benutzung von Pseudonymen, Anonymitat oder pseudonymes Verhalten zu umgehen. Das finanzielle Risiko dagegen schien unuberwindbar: Mir ist keine Autorin bekannt, die sich ausschlieslich von ihrer dramatischen Produktion ernahrte. Einige Autorinnen waren sozial und finanziell abgesichert und schrieben nicht aus Erwerbsgrunden (Amalie von Sachsen, Elisabeth von Rumanien, Katharina II.). Fur viele andere war Schreiben lediglich die zweite Berufswahl: Auguste Gotze war hauptberuflich Konzertsangerin; Elise Schmidt Rezitatorin; Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer Schauspielerin. Wilhelmine von Hillern begann erst nach ihrer Heirat zu schreiben, als sie ihre Karriere als Schauspielerin aufgeben muste; Elisabeth Muller war Lehrerin, bis sie sich aufgrund veranderter okonomischer Verhaltnisse den prekaren Stand als freie Schriftstellerin leisten konnte. Fur sie und unzahlige andere (meist Schauspielerinnen) war der nicht schriftstellerische Beruf die Erwerbstatigkeit; die zweite Karriere lief nebenbei.
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