Katherine Arens

Katherine Arens
University of Texas at Austin | UT · Department of Germanic Studies

PhD

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September 1986 - August 1993
University of Texas at Austin
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
September 1980 - August 1986
University of Texas at Austin
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
September 1993 - present
University of Texas at Austin
Position
  • Professor (Full)
Description
  • Also in Program for Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, CREES, and European Studies
Education
August 1976 - January 1981
Stanford University
Field of study
  • German Studies and Humanities Special Programs
September 1975 - May 1976
Stanford University
Field of study
  • German Studies
September 1971 - May 1975
Northwestern University
Field of study
  • German, Physics

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Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), the German-speaking thinker of Jewish origin, born in Horzitz/Hořice in eastern Bohemia, raised and educated in Prague, active in Berlin as a journalist and theater critic, was a prolific author and is received today primarily as a philosopher of language. He identified with German culture, and at the same time he was bo...
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This essay takes up “Austrian philosophy” as a tradition with broad implications outside narrower histories of philosophy in the Kantian tradition. This reading recovers a Kant focused on knowledge production and on critiques based on embodied, situated epistemologies and the agency embedded in them. This Kant was received in the pedagogies of two...
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Review of Fredrick Crew's book, _Freud: The Making of an Illusion"
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Blbllografische Information der Deutschen Natlonalbib-llothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Oaten sind im Internet uber http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar.
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The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era -...
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These two texts represent a new generation of Jewish studies within the German and Austrian studies context—both extremely interesting in terms of the materials they work with and notable for taking up the “Jewish question” in terms appropriate to the periods they present rather than by working backwards from the Shoah. In so doing, Silverman and D...
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Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that «Habsburg nostalgia» is anything but bac...
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Kleinlercher, a faculty member at University College, London, has in this impeccable volume taken up the perpetually thorny problem of Austrian author Heimito von Doderer and his implication in both antisemitism and National Socialism. To supplement her thorough survey of the published material on the author, Kleinlercher conducted interviews with...
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This chapter outlines a core problem for foreign language (FL) departments at the graduate level: how the training of graduate students needs to answer not only to new curricular and institutional demands, but also to the demands imposed by both traditional and current ideas about disciplinarity and scholarship, as well. It offers a heuristic for u...
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Michaela Wolf is a professor at the Institut für Translationswissenschaft at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz specializing in the history and sociology of translation; this fine book (available as an ebook sponsored by the Austrian FWF—Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung,: <https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:18/bdef:C...
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Aufbau wozu, whose title is drawn from an interview with H. C. Artmann (1921–2000), has as its goal the idea of restarting scholarly interest in this undervalued author, especially in light of the fact that the City of Vienna acquired his private library in 2004. As general interest in cultural studies has turned to the immediate postwar era, the W...
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This volume contains most of the papers from the 2009 meeting of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik and the Institut für Germanistik in Innsbruck, which had the volume’s title as its theme. This meeting offered a broad survey of what Germanistik is and what range of scholarship and teaching we need to embrace in the current context. T...
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This volume originated in a 2007 dissertation by Andrea Brandner-Kapfer at the University of Graz: a complete historical-critical edition of the works of the playwright and actor Johann Joseph Felix von Kurz (1717–1784, also remembered in theater history as Kurz-Bernadon, after the variant of the Hanswurst that he created, Bernadon). The present vo...
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This fine little book has its origins in a dissertation done at the University of Zurich, under the supervision of Dr. Martin E. Schmid, about Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Neue Deutsche Beiträge. That literary magazine was conceived as a way to deal with the consequences of the First World War (as was his great editing project at the Österreichische Bib...
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This volume is part of the series of publications of the Austrian State Archive, inspired by a new generation of research on archives that started with the 2005 75. Deutsche Archivtag in Stuttgart (documented in Robert Kretzschmar et al., eds., Das deutsche Archivwesen und der Nationalsozialismus: 75. Deutscher Archivtag in Stuttgart, Essen 2006)....
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Imperial Messages had its origin in a 2005 Harvard dissertation supervised by Judith Ryan; the version issued by Camden House in one of its customarily well-produced volumes has been revised and tightened, although the argument remains essentially the same. Lemon’s point of departure is the growing body of work questioning the applicability of post...
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This superb book on state-sponsored censorship of the 1820s in the German lands (Heady’s term, 4) is based on a dissertation supervised by Michael Perraudin in the UK, but this is no mere dissertation: it is a mature, well-written and -documented set of valuable case studies representative of a current generation of political analysis of texts. It...
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Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment is an important book by a mature scholar, opening up a new vista on the legacy of the German Enlightenment in cultural studies and in post-colonial studies, where, in light of the English-language (and often English-only) domination of scholarship, that legacy is often straightforwardly fal...
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Today’s typical formulation of the Erklären/Verstehen differential rests on a stylized conceptual dichotomy preserved, for example, in the idea of the two cultures, or in Windelband’s classic distinction between nomothetic and ideographic sciences (those based on generalized laws, and those exploring a single case in depth, with knowledge based on...
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LuftDavid S.Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 232, illus., maps. - Volume 36 - Katherine Arens
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Based on National Standards for Foreign Language Learning (1996), this essay presents a heuristic designed to challenge both the language-teaching and the literature-teaching sides of a typical language-and-literature department by offering a reconceptualization of what it means to teach language and literature as texts in different genres, anchore...
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Löchte’s book originates in a 2004 dissertation written at the Technische Universität in Berlin under the supervision of Conrad Wiedemann. As the title indicates, it addresses Herder’s theory of culture and his theory of humanity, with the goal of recapturing from behind the many myths the thinker associated with the rise of historicism, a historic...
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Based on National Standards for Foreign Language Learning (1996), this essay presents a heuristic designed to challenge both the language-teaching and the literature-teaching sides of a typical language-and-literature department by offering a reconceptualization of what it means to teach language and literature as texts in different genres, anchore...
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Based on National Standards for Foreign Language Learning (1996), this essay presents a heuristic designed to challenge both the language‐teaching and the literature‐teaching sides of a typical language‐and‐literature department by offering a reconceptualization of what it means to teach language and literature as texts in different genres, anchore...
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Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (Passagen-Werk) is discussed here as an unacknowledged treatise on methodology: a hermeneutics of the modern city that aims to interpret how a city is evidence of an era's Wollen, its drive to manifest its self-understanding in distinctive material forms. My coinage Stadtwollen alludes to an undervalued source for...
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A History of Austrian Literature is a very inadequate title for this fine volume of Austrian literary and cultural history in the post-Habsburg era, as might be expected from a volume drawing on an international team of scholars, edited out of England, at the moment perhaps the most interesting locus for Austrian studies outside of Austria itself....

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