- PD Dr. Caspar Battegay
Universität Basel
Deutsches Seminar
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften,
Nadelberg 4
CH-4051 Basel
- Intellectual History, Jewish Studies, German Literature, German-Jewish Studies, Jewish Identity, Pop Culture, and 41 moreSwiss German Literature, Jewish Thought, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Jewish Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Alternate history (Literature), German-Jewish literature, Heinrich Heine, Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Identity, 20th-century German philosophy, Franz Rosenzweig, Intertextuality, Cultural History, Nathan Birnbaum, Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Diaspora Studies, Franz Kafka, German Studies, Utopian Studies, 20th Century German Literature, Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics, Jewish Literature, Literary studies, German Modernism, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Modernism, Alfred Döblin, Austrian Literature, Franz Werfel, Franz Werfel Scholarship, Utopian, Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Dystopian Literature, Dystopias, Song Lyrics, Joseph Roth, Sociology of Food and Eating, Media and Cultural Studies, and Media Historyedit
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Research Interests: German Studies, German Literature, Jewish Studies, Diasporas, German-Jewish literature, and 11 moreUtopian Literature, Jewish Literature, German-Jewish Literature (Jewish Studies), 20th century Avant-Garde, Exile Literature, Jewish apocalyptic literature, German-Jewish Studies, Utopian, Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Conceptions of Time and Space in Literature, German Exile Literature, and Austrian Literature, Franz Werfel
Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specific understanding of nostalgia in Joseph Roth's late literary work, conceptualizing it not in a psychological or political sense, but as a... more
Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specific understanding of nostalgia in Joseph Roth's late literary work, conceptualizing it not in a psychological or political sense, but as a poetics of storytelling. At the center of this discussion is the notion of narrative performativity in Beichte eines Mörders erzählt in einer Nacht (1936), and I argue that the practice of storytelling can be read as a nostalgic and ironic gesture that comments on the modern crisis of the perception of time. While the hypodiegetic narrator of Beichte is stylized as an authentic oral storyteller, who nostalgically recounts his experiences and opens up a space that transcends the chronological notion of time, his nostalgia is undermined by the ironic frame narrative in which it is embedded. The metaleptic structure at the end of the novel breaks the narrative illusion of a realistic plot and negates any nostalgic appropriations. Experiencing the storyteller does not create a meaningful community of listeners, but instead forms strange echoes—doublings—that confuse the narrative order. This reading shows Roth as a genuine modern writer who provides a model for the function of literature as an answer to the modern obsession with progress and newness.
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Research Interests: German Studies, Comparative Literature, German Literature, Jewish Studies, Literature, and 10 moreGerman-Jewish literature, Holocaust Studies, German Literature and Culture, Jewish Literature, Alternate History, Martin Amis, Holocaust Literature, Nazi Germany, Quentin Tarantino, and Holocaust Memory
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in: Musil-Forum, Band 34 (2015/16), hg. von Norbert Christian Wolf und Rosmarie Zeller, Berlin: de Gruyter 2016, S. 395-399.
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Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Foodways (Anthropology), Chinese Studies, Contemporary Art, Food, Gender, Culture, and 13 moreFood and Nutrition, Contemporary Literature, German Literature and Culture, Food Culture and Literature, Sociology of Taste, Food Culture, Taste, Food and Foodways, Food History, Food Culture, Chinese Food Studies, Aesthetics of Taste, Jewish Food, Culinary Foodways, and Food history, Germany
What are the various interfaces between mind, wo/man, and machine and how can these interfaces be further explored within and across different dis- ciplines? In this conference, we will investigate the complex interaction between humans... more
What are the various interfaces between mind, wo/man, and machine and how can these interfaces be further explored within and across different dis- ciplines? In this conference, we will investigate the complex interaction between humans and machines as well as various ways of reverse-engineering the brain. We will discuss current approaches, theories, and methodologies in this field, and also identify shared research interests, which might lead to future collaborations between the humanities and the sciences, between members of both academies, and beyond.
While the conference will be open to the public, the workshop on Tuesday evening is restricted to mem- bers of the German and Israel Young Academies.
To attend the conference, please register via email (manmindmachine@diejungeakademie.de)
by 08 June.
While the conference will be open to the public, the workshop on Tuesday evening is restricted to mem- bers of the German and Israel Young Academies.
To attend the conference, please register via email (manmindmachine@diejungeakademie.de)
by 08 June.