Year: 2019
Author: Detering, Nicolas
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 60 (2019), Iss. 1 : pp. 317–338
Abstract
The article re-evaluates the notion of heroic agency by arguing that many instances of heroism in early 20th century German literature rely not on great deeds, but on images of fatalist persistence. After a discussion of the conceptual elements and traditions of heroic persistence, the essay surveys variants of its semanticization between Nietzsche’s amor fati and German exile narrations of the 1940s. The perusal shows that ›heroic attentism‹ in modernist literature is less dependent on the respective political affiliations of the authors, but rather on the concept’s ability to adapt to discursive trends and remain applicable to different historical experiences.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/ljb.60.1.317
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 60 (2019), Iss. 1 : pp. 317–338
Published online: 2019-11
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 22
Author Details
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Detering: Heroischer Fatalismus. Denkfiguren des ›Durchhaltens‹ von Nietzsche bis Seghers | 1 | ||
| Abstract | 1 | ||
| I. | 1 | ||
| II. Durchhalten: Elemente einer Denkfigur | 4 | ||
| III. »Zähne zusammengebissen!« Nietzsche und Thomas Mann | 6 | ||
| IV. Eiserne Männer, deutsche Frauen: Genderstereotype des Durchhaltens nach 1914 | 1 | ||
| V. ›Geöffnetsein‹: Die Wartenden der Weimarer Republik | 1 | ||
| VI. »Dennoch die Schwerter halten«: Immunisierungsversuche nach 1933 | 1 | ||
| VII. | 2 |