Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 2015

Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Elizabeth Boa, University of Nottingham, UK Mary Cosgrove, University of Warwick, UK Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford, UK Dirk Göttsche, University of Nottingham, UK Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin, Ireland Gillian Pye, University College Dublin, Ireland Matthias Uecker, University of Nottingham, UK Andrew J. Webber, University of Cambridge, UK

Introduction: Faulty Clocks, Human Errors and the Management of Time in Modernity and Late Modernity; Anne Fuchs and J. J. LongPART I1. Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration, Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse; Anne Fuchs2. How Long does the Present Last? Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon; Aleida Assmann3. Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports; Kathleen James-ChakrabortyPART II4. Epistemology, Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900; Dirk Göttsche5. Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka's Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912; Elizabeth Boa6. Icons of Speed – Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture; Matthias Uecker7. Snapshot, Composite, Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic; J. J. Long8. Syncope, Pause, Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration; Carolin DuttlingerPART III9. 'Good Work': Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold's Barbara; Andrew J. Webber10. Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the 'Information Rapids' with Angela Krauß; Gillian Pye11. The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature; Mary CosgroveBibliographyIndex