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Urgent Matter

Moore, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2015)

Opening questions about "things" onto the bureaucratically-maintained, compartmentalized discursive, disciplinary claims of "philosophy," "theory," and "poetry," "Urgent Matter" explores these three terms in relation to ...
"Was bedeutet der Stein?": Fetishism, Profanation, and Parody in Fontane's Grete Minde

Weitzman, Erica (University of Oregon, 2015)

This article explores the function of the precarious (non-)significance of the thing in Theodor Fontane’s 1879 novella Grete Minde. On the surface a simple tale of exclusion and revenge in seventeenth-century Brandenburg ...