Course Bibliography - the University of Warwick

GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Course Bibliography
Boredom
Cooke, Paul, “Boredom”, in Berlin School Glossary: An ABC of the New Wave in
German Cinema, ed. Roger F. Cook, Lutz Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, Brad Prager
(Bristol UK, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani (eds.), Essays on Boredom and Modernity,
(Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009) [good historical overview following E.
Goodstein’s lead; essays on specific thinkers – Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Benjamin –
and a final essay on boredom and the Internet]
Martin Doehlemann, Langeweile? Deutung eines verbreiteten Phänomens
(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991) [sociological study with overview of
categories and some good material from popular culture as well as from philosophy
and literature]
Elizabeth S. Goodstein, Experience without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity
(California: Standford UP, 2005) [excellent standard work on boredom as a
specifically modern phenomenon]
Orrin Klapp, Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the
Information Society (New York, London: Greenwood Press, 1986) [sociological
study of boredom in the USA; while it is a little dated, much of what Klapp
discusses is still broadly relevant]
Siegfried Kracauer, “Langeweile” in Das Ornament der Masse (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp, 1963), 321-325 [famous short essay on boredom and leisure time in the
context of mass culture and the modern metropolis]
Reinhard Kuhn, The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1976) [a classic study of boredom in literary and
intellectual history].
Patricia Meyer-Spacks, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (Chicago,
London: University of Chicago Press, 1995) [useful for a historical approach to
boredom and also for boredom and gender, although the analysis of texts concerns
earlier centuries]
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Arbeit und Langeweile” in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Erstes
Buch, Absatz 42 http://www.textlog.de/21209.html [famous and much-cited text
on the importance of boredom for creativity]
GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination (Charlottesville, VA,
London: University Press of Virginia, 1999) [chapter 2 is useful for an overview of
acedia]
Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom, trans. John Irons (London: Reaktion,
2005) [excellent general introduction to the theme from a cultural – filmic and
literary – historical as well as a philosophical angle]
Peter Toohey, Boredom: A Lively History (New Haven, London: Yale UP, 2011)
[excellent general introduction, with chapters on boredom and animals, acedia
and chronic boredom]
Ludwig Völker, Langeweile: Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte eines literarischen
Motivs (Munich: Fink, 1975) [authoritative study of the history of the term
“Langeweile”]
Richard Winter, Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment: Rediscovering Passion
and Wonder (Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2002) [easily readable general essay on
boredom in the contemporary era]
Other reading
Marco Abel, The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School (Rochester, NY: Camden
House, 2013)
Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, trans. John Howe
(London, New York: Verso, 1995)
Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, trans. Chris Turner
(London: Sage, 1998)
Anke S. Biendarra, Germans going Global: Contemporary Literature and Cultural
Globalization (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012)
Ulrich Bröckling, Das unternehmerische Selbst: Soziologie einer
Subjektivierungsform (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2013)
Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet (London: Routledge, 2008)
Alain Ehrenberg, The Wearniness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression
in the Contemporary Age (Montreal-Kingston, London: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010)
David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of
Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin (Cambridge: Polity, 1985)
GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger, “The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core
Periphery and Social Conflict”, in Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order, eds.
Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 228-248
Ute Lehrer, “Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban
Competition after 1989”, in The Global Cities Reader, ed. Neil Brenner, Roger Keil
(Oxford, New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 332-338
Peter Merriman, “Driving Places: Marc Augé, Non-Places and the Geographies of
England’s M1 Motorway”, Theory, Culture & Society 21:4-5 (2004): 145-167
Saskia Sassen, “The Global City: The De-Nationalizing of Time and Space”
http://90.146.8.18/en/archiv_files/20021/E2002_018.pdf
Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work
in the New Capitalism (New York, London: Norton, 1998)
Georg Simmel, “Die Groβstädte und das Geistesleben”, Projekt Gutenberg-De.:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/die-grossstadte-und-das-geistesleben-7738/2
John Tomlinson, The Culture of Speed: The Coming of Immediacy (London: Sage,
2007)
Recommended reading on individual writers / works / films
Wilhelm Genazino
Anne Fuchs, “After the Flâneur: Temporality and Connectivity in Wilhelm
Genazino’s Belebung der Toten Winkel and Das Glück in Glücksfernen Zeiten”
Modern Language Review 109:2 (2014): 431-446
Wilhelm Genazino, “Der Untrost und die Untröstlichkeit der Literatur”, in Der
gedehnte Blick (Munich: DTV, 2007), 196-205
Wilhelm Genazino, “Der Ernstfall der Langeweile”, in Idyllen in der Halbnatur
(Munich: DTV, 2012), 222-26
Françoise Wemelsfelder, “Animal Boredom: Understanding the Tedium of Confined
Lives”, in Mental Health and Well-Being in Animals, ed. Franklin D. McMillan
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 79-91.
Iris Hanika
Matthew Cook, Micheline van Riemsdijk, “Agents of memorialization: Gunter
Demnig's Stolpersteine and the individual (re-)creation of a Holocaust landscape in
GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Berlin”, Journal of Historical Geography 43 (2014): 138-147
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748813000996
Mary Cosgrove, Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German
Literature (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014), epilogue “Death of the Male
Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to
Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche, pp. 185-xx
Andrew S. Gross, “Holocaust Tourism in Berlin: Global Memory, Trauma and the
Negative Sublime”, Journeys 7:2 (year): 73-100
http://courses.washington.edu/berlin07/Readings/AndyGross_HolocaustTourismIn
Berlin.pdf
Griselda Pollock, “Holocaust Tourism: Being there, looking back and the ethics of
spatial memory”, in Visual Culture and Tourism, ed. David Crouch, Nina Lübbren
(Oxford: Berg, 2003), pp. 175-190
Bill Niven, Facing the Nazi Past: United German and the Legacy of the Third Reich
(London: Routledge, 2001), chapter 1 “Concentration camp memorial sites”, pp. 938; chapter 8 “The Holocaust memorial”, pp. 189-226
Erhard Schütz, “Über das literarische Rückkehrrecht der Erinnerung. Eine mögliche
Perspektive auf Europa in der deutschen Gedächtniskultur”
http://www.kas.de/upload/Publikationen/2014/bruecken_bauen_in_europa/1401
20_schuetz.pdf.
Erhard Schütz, “Zweitgeschichte? Gegenwartsliteratur zwischen
Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung und Geschichtsermunterung”, Zeitschrift für
Germanistik 23:3 (2013): 592-606.
Henryk M. von Broder, “Das Shoah Business” Der Spiegel (16) 4 April 1993
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13680385.html
Terezia Mora
Tobias Kraft, “Von einer Poetik der Drastik zum Entwurf eines 'Realismus der
Globalisierung' am Beispiel der Romane von Terézia Mora”, Pandaemonium
Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos 20 (2012): 154-175 [focuses more
on earlier novel Alle Tage than on Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent]
Monika Shafi, “ ‘Mit der Wende kam der Appetit’: Food, Work, and Gender in
Terézia Mora’s novel Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent”, Chloe: Beihefte zum
Daphnis, “ […] wenn sie das Wort Ich gebraucht”, Festschrift für Barbara BeckerCantarino, ed. Jacqueline Vasant and John Pustejovsky, 47 (2013): 307-324
GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Nathan Taylor, “Am Nullpunkt des Realismus: Terézia Moras Poetik des Hic et
Nunc”, in Poetiken der Gegenwart: Deutschsprachige Romane nach 2000, ed. Silke
Horstkotte, Leonhard Herrmann (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), pp. 13-30 [focuses
more on earlier novel Alle Tage than on Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent]
Julia Schoch
Mary Cosgrove “Heimat as Nonplace and Terrain Vague in Jenny Erpenbeck’s
Heimsuchung and Julia Schoch’s Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers”, New
German Critique 39:2 116 (2012): 63-86
Anne Fuchs, “Ostalgia, Local Identity and the Quest for Heimat in the Global Age:
Julia Schoch’s Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers and Judith Zander’s Dinge,
die wir heute sagten”, in Heimat: At the Intersection of Space and Memory, ed.
Friederike Eigler, Jens Kugele (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), pp. 125-139
Emily Jeremiah, “Shameful Stories: The Ethics of East German Memory Contests in
Fiction by Julia Schoch, Stefan Moster, Ante Rávic Strubel, and Judith Schalansky”,
in Edinburgh German Yearbook 7: Ethical Approaches in Contemporary GermanLanguage Literature and Culture, ed. Frauke Matthes, Emily Jeremiah (Rochester,
NY: Camden House 2013), pp. 65-83
Franziska Meyer, “The Past is Another Country and the Country is Another Past:
Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch, in Edinburgh
German Yearbook 6: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and
Culture, ed. Mary Cosgrove, Anna Richards (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012),
pp. 173-192
Christian Petzold: Yella
Marco Abel, “The Cinema of Identification Gets on my Nerves: An Interview with
Christian Petzold” Cineaste http://www.cineaste.com/articles/an-interview-withchristian-petzold.htm
Marco Abel, The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School (Rochester, NY: Camden
House, 2013), chapter 2, pp. 69-110
Anke S. Biendarra, “Ghostly Business: Place, Space, and Gender in Christian
Petzold’s Yella” Seminar 47:3 (2011): 357-370
Jaimey Fisher, “Globalization as Uneven Geographical Development: The ‘Creative’
Destruction of Place and Fantasy in Christian Petzold’s Ghost Trilogy”, Seminar
47:4 (2011): 447-464
Matthew D. Miller, “Facts of Migration, Demands on Identity: Christian Petzold's
Yella and Jerichow in Comparison", The German Quarterly (Winter 2012): 55-76
GE438 Professor Cosgrove: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Brad Prager, “Passing Time Since the Wende: Recent German Film on Unification”,
German Politics and Society Issue 94 28:1 (Spring 2010): 95-110
Christoph Hochhäusler: Unter dir die Stadt
Marco Abel, The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School (Rochester, NY: Camden
House, 2013), chapter 5, pp. 162-200
http://www.filmgazette.de/?s=filmkritiken&id=547
http://www.critic.de/special/amour-fou-eines-managers-3145/
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/banker-film-unter-dir-die-stadt-mein-freundist-ein-high-potential-a-754100.html
http://www.schnitt.de/223,6549,01.html