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Papers

(The TQCC of Germanic Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Alexander Kluge’s Post-Global Politics of Citation: Decolonial Modernity and the Rhetoric of History	3
Dada Historiography; or, How to End One’s Work?	2
Schreibweisen des Exotismus. Sinnesfülle und Fremdheit in der westeuropäischen Literatur vom 18. bis zum 20. JahrhundertFranziska Bergmann. Schreibweisen des Exotismus. Sinnesfülle und	2
Tales That Touch: Migration, Translation, and Temporality in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Culture *Tales That Touch: Migration, Translation*	1
Esty’s Erlebnis and Moishe’s Mikveh: Experiencing Berlin in Netflix’s Unorthodox	1
Futur Drei: Queer of Color Presents, Ephemeral Art, and Germany’s Club Scene	1
Connecting the Thoughts: Ernst Mach, Robert Musil, and the End(s) of Thinking ¹	1
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish ThoughtGilad Sharvit. Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought . Waltham: Brandeis	1
Der engagierte Eremit : Critique and Escape in Arno Schmidt and Theodor W. Adorno	1
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature	1
Introduction	1
Tobias Wilke. Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation	1
Anmerkungen übers Theater. Remarks Concerning the Theatre	1
A Forgotten Soldier: Entry of the Nonheroic in Sophocles’s Philoctetes	0
Temporal Displacement in Ulrike Ottinger’s Films	0
Women in German Expressionism: Gender/Sexuality/Activism	0
“Im Diskurs bleiben”: Kathrin Röggla’s Gegenwart as Catastrophe and the Possibilities of Critique	0
The Entanglements of Matter, Mind, and Meaning: Novalis’s “Elastic Mode of Thinking”	0
The GDR Tomorrow: Rethinking the East German Legacy	0
Alienating Choruses in German-speaking Performing Arts	0
The Unsettling of the Human Form: Kafka’s “The Trees”	0
Hannah Arendt’s Transatlantic Walter Benjamin	0
Theoretische Neugierde: Horizonte Hans Blumenbergs. Mit einem unveröffentlichten Manuskript von Blumenberg.	0
Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Canon	0
Vigorous Leaps and Tragic Falls: Bodies in Distress in Kleist and Schiller	0

“Der Tod in Venedig” und die Grenzgänge des Erzählens: Interkulturelle AnalysenThomas Mann, “Der Tod in Venedig” und die Grenzgänge des Erzählens: Interkulturelle Analysen	0
“Die Partei der Blumen und Nachtigallen”: Heine and Herder Between National and World Literature	0
Die Arbeitsweise der Brüder Grimm	0
Black Enlightenment	0
The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood. Patricia Anne Simpson	0
Introduction: Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Communism of Spirits”	0
Langsame Katastrophen. Eine Poetik der Erdgeschichte	0
“The Right Despair”: Kafka’s Nihilist Technique	0
“Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön”: On the Morphology of Eighteenth-Century Drama	0
Marx im Chor (Hannah Arendt)	0
Without Beginning or End¹	0
Der komische Chor – das Chorische der ‚komischen Person‘	0
“”? Texting Scenes: Digital Schreibzeug & Emoji Activism	0
Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Property and Ecological Networks in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida	0
Antennas of Critical Theory: On the Praxeological Role of Dictation in Theodor W. Adorno’s Work	0
Textile Subjectivity: Craft, Text, and Critique in Elfriede Jelinek’s Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften* (1979)	0
“Who’s there?”: On the Crisis Structure of Entrances in Drama and Theater	0
Germany Revisits the St. Louis Voyage: Die Ungewollten/The Unwanted — Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis	0
Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha	0
“Youth, Ladies and Gentlemen, Honored Academy”: Rainald Goetz and the “Literaturbetrieb”	0
Paul Michael Lützeler. Hermann Broch und die Menschenrechte: Anti-Versklavung als Ethos der Welt	0
Revolutionary Romanticism: Carl Schmitt on Bettina von Arnim	0
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism	0
Heinrich Heine und die „rote Weltliteratur“	0
Staging Flight. The Theater as a Transitory Space ¹	0
Habsburg Horror: Freud on Netflix	0
Mythos and Pathos: Herakles in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance	0
Sources and Methods: Theory of Canon and the Possibilities of Disciplinary Practice in German Studies	0
(Not) “Stuck on Adorno”: Dreamy Afterlives in Minoritized Key	0
The Frankfurt School in New York	0
Die Mosse-Frauen: Deutsch-jüdische Lebensgeschichten	0
Critique as Counterproduction: Repair Work in Alexander Kluge	0
The Dramaturgy of Demise: On Goethe’s Der Groß-Cophta	0
World Literature and Defeat	0
“Wutpilger-Streifzüge.” Celans Wörter, aus dem Netz gefischt	0
A Performance for Everyone? Othering and the Politics of Language in J.M.R. Lenz’s Die Soldaten (1776)	0
Heine and World Literature	0
Sorrow and Unification with Nature in the Fragment von Hyperion : Hölderlin and the Kantian Picture of Human Agency	0
Errant Equine Lines: Ornament and Embodiment in Kafka’s Drawings	0
The Glass Between: Window and Telescope as Framing Devices in Adalbert Stifter’s Der Hochwald	0
Erica Weitzman. At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter	0
Queer Time in Contemporary German Cinema	0
Emotions and the Archive: Felix Moeller’s Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss (2008) and Malte Ludin’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (2004)	0
Kitchen and Cosmos: Chorus, Gender, and Politics in Aristophanes' Ekklesiazusai (Assembly Women)	0
Josephine the Singer or A People of Mice	0
Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction	0
Nothing to Lose but Their Borrowing Privileges: the Frankfurt School at Columbia	0
Kracauer, Bachofen, and the “bedeutungsleere Naturfundament”	0
Of Apes and Mimesis: Art, Survival, and Aping in Kafka’s “Ein Bericht für eine Akademie”	0
Über lyrische Sprache, Gedenken und historische Erfahrung: Paul Celan, gelesen mit José F.A. Oliver	0

Kleist and the Uncertainty of Things	0
German Philosophy and the First World WarNicolas de Warren. German Philosophy and the First World War . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 426 pp., $45.95.	0
The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand: Heiner Müller’s Self-Presentation in the German Public Sphere	0
Remembrance Undisciplined: Reading Paul Celan with Max Czollek	0
Bettine Menke. Einfälle, Zufälle, Ausfälle: Der Witz Der Sprache	0
Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference	0
Low Tide, Black Shoals: Toward Offshore Formations in Celan Studies	0
The Fantastic Regained in Reinhard Jirgl’s Nichts von euch auf Erden and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum	0
Communism of Spirits	0
Ritter’s Musical Esthetics, Der Freischütz, and the Certainty of Nature in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany¹	0
Exotismus und koloniale Biomacht: Edgar Freiherr von Spiegel über die Marshallinseln	0
Aby Warburg. Briefe in 2 Bänden, by Michael Diers and Steffen Haug, eds.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 1430 pp. b/w ill., $103.99. ISBN 978-3-11-053369-9	0
Goethes Bibliothek. Eine Sammlung und ihre Geschichte	0
The End of Drawing: Kafka, Jugendstil, and Losing Weight in All Directions	0
Text & Critique: Gegenwartsliteratur	0
Nature, Condensed: Reading Paul Celan, Esther Kinsky, and Theodor W. Adorno in the Anthropocene	0
Recognition and its Grounds in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King	0
Ernst Jünger, Ernst Bloch and the Danger Zone of the Remnant	0
‘Unleashing the Globe:’ Diversity and Planetary Knowledge in Reportages by Ilija Trojanow	0
The Missing Word of History: Hölderlin and “Communism”	0
Figuring the Planet: Post-Global Perspectives on German Literature	0
A View from Morningside Heights: Adorno and Horkheimer at Columbia	0
Sketchy! Kafka’s Drawings in Medias Res	0
Introduction to “Heine and World Literature”	0
Techniques of Narration, Notation, and Subjection in Döblin’s “Die Tänzerin und der Leib”	0
Conference Report: „ich lebe ich schreibe“: Friederike Mayröcker (1924-2021)	0
Fakten und Verunsicherung. Ordnungen von Wahrheit, Fiktion und Wirklichkeit	0
Vogelfrei: Marx and the Worker in Exile	0
Martha’s Melancholia: Racial and Sexual Trauma in Gertrud Kolmar’s Die Jüdische Mutter (1931)	0
Reading Celan Today	0
Writing in the Time of Photo-, Phono-, and Cinematography. On Images in Franz Kafka’s Novel The Trial	0
The Arabic-Spanish-Jewish School of Poets: Heinrich Heine’s “Jehudah Ben Halevy” and World Literature	0
The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka	0
The Aesthetics of Impotentiation in Tieck and Hölderlin	0
Planetary Textuality: Reading Asmus Trautsch’s “Die Urwälder Europas”	0
Oliver Simons. Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist	0
The Return of “Empfindsamkeit?” Mapping “New Sensibility” Literature	0
Ivan Boldyrev. Die Ohnmacht des Spekulativen: Elemente einer Poetik von Hegels “Phänomenologie des Geistes”	0
Iris Meinen, and Nils Lehnert (Eds.). Öffnung–Schließung–Übertritte. Körperbilder in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur	0
Lina Užukauskaitė. Das Schöne im Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns: Zur Aktualität Einer Zentralen Ästhetischen Kategorie Nach 1945	0
The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism	0
Orientalism, Europe’s Borderlands, and the Possibility of Genocide in Franz Werfel’s Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (1933)	0
Hofmannsthal and his Publishers	0
Time Machine TV: Digital Television in Netflix’s Dark	0
Kafka on the Page: On the Relationship of Drawings, Writing, and the Page in Franz Kafka’s Draftsmanship	0
Kafka’s Drawings: Introduction	0
Mendelssohn’s Upending of Canonical Appropriation	0
Lesbian Desire and the Jump Cut in Monika Treut’s Von Mädchen und Pferden	0
Demonic Ambiguity, Natural Philosophy, and the Politics of the Pregnant Word: Marx and Benjamin on Law and Language	0
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation	0
Screening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold	0
Writing Time: Studies in Serial Literature, 1780-1850	0
On the Possibility of Poetic Embodiment: Articulatory Gesture in Paul Celan’s “Offene Glottis”	0
The Literary Grammar of Entrances: On the Work of Juliane Vogel	0
A Reading of Friedrich A. Kittler’s Reading of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Der Goldene Topf” (The Golden Pot) in Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900)	0
Beyond Form: Poetry, Politics, and Feminist Interventions	0
Instituting Theory as Style: The Frankfurt School in New York	0
Remembering the Holocaust in a Digital Age: Katja Petrowskaja at the End of Europe	0
Christian Petzold: Interviews *Christian Petzold: Interviews* , by Marco Abel, Aylin Bademsoy, and Jaimey Fisher eds.	0
Gustav Landauer, Briefe 1899–1919, 7 Bde	0
Eco-Szenarien der Finsternis. Chorisches im Anthropozän	0
Dalia Nassar. Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt	0
Enter with Courage: Emergence and Ground in Shakespeare, Arendt, and Tillich	0
Kafka’s Drawings and the Social History of Art	0
Temporality of Tolerance and Acts of Endurance in Fremde Haut	0
Caroline Duttlinger. Attention & Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, & Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 437 pp., $115. ISBN 978-0-19-285630-2	0
Protest and the Opacity of Literature: James Baldwin and Paul Celan	0
Lotte at the Movies: Gendered Spectatorship and German Histories of Violence in Babylon Berlin	0
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Color of Classicism	0
Kafka in Motion	0
Lyrical Touch: Paul Celan and Yunus Emre in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak	0
Uncertainty in Early German Romanticism	0
The Queer Voice and Gaze in Eichendorff’s Das Marmorbild	0
German Netflix Culture	0
Mark Christian Thompson. The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, JR., and Philosophy	0
Enter Goffman: On Entrance, Embarrassment, and Role in Erving Goffman’s Dramaturgical Sociology	0
Antonia Villinger. Dramen der Schwangerschaft. Friedrich Hebbels “Judith”, “Maria Magdalena” und “Genoveva”	0
Geschichten zerstören. Antinarrative Prosa in der österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts	0
Die Konturen der Welt: Geschichte und Gegenwart visueller Bildung nach Otto Neurath	0
Nodes of Translation: Intellectual History between Modern India and Germany	0

Stifter’s Natives and Wandering Exotica: The Circulating Canons of “Die Narrenburg”	0
Tiger, Advancing: Energéia, Adventure, Emergence in Goethe’s Novella	0
Formlose Form. Epistemik und Poetik des Aggregats beim späten Goethe	0
Man, Woman, Chorus. On Dramatic Figuration in Oskar Kokoschka’s Mörder Hoffnung der Frauen	0