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Judith Ryan

Interests: German, English, and French literature, especially poetry and the novel, from 1770 to the present. Special interests include aestheticism and symbolism, modernism and the avant-garde, contemporary literature, colonialism and postcolonialism. Classical modernism of the twentieth century, especially with respect to Rilke, Kafka, Musil, and Broch, is a key focus of her work. Another crucial emphasis lies in contemporary writers such as Patrick Süskind, Berhard Schlink, Christoph Ransmayr, and W.G. Sebald. Her book, The Novel After Theory (2012), explores the critical responses of recent writers to French poststructuralist theory. Among her most recent scholarly contributions are an essay on “Time, Space, and Sacred-Secular Configurations in Modern Poetry” (2018), “Herrmann Broch’s Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Time” (2019) and “Zwischen Zeilen und Zeiten. Museales Erzählen in den Prosafiktionen W.G. Sebalds” (to appear in May, 2020).

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cambridge introduction to German poetry

Choice Reviews Online, Jul 23, 2013

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exploring the poem 2. Poetic roles in early song-lyrics 3. Devotional ... more Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exploring the poem 2. Poetic roles in early song-lyrics 3. Devotional poetry 4. The rhetoric of passion 5. Classical Antiquity and modern experience 6. Romantic poetry and the problem of lyric unity 7. The self and the senses 8. Modernism and difficulty 9. Poetry after Auschwitz 10. The strain of political poetry Working on the text Writing up your close reading German metrics Index.

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Research paper thumbnail of 'Ägyptische Erinnerungen' : Zur Frage des Fragmentarischen in Rilkes später Lyrik.

Nach Duino: Studien zu Rainer Maria Rilkes späten Gedichten. Ed. Karen Leeder & Robert Vilain. Göttingen: Wallstein., 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of The Durs Grünbein Debacle and his poem "Die Voliere der Malerei"

Interkulturelle Dialoge: Exil und Gegenwartsliteratur, Europa- und Kunst-Diskurse, 2023

Explores reasons for Raddatz' negative view of Grünbein using an analysis of the latter's poem "D... more Explores reasons for Raddatz' negative view of Grünbein using an analysis of the latter's poem "Die Voliere der Malerei" and his interest in paintings by Matisse.

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Research paper thumbnail of Zwischen Zeilen und Zeiten. Museales Erzählen in den Prosafiktionen W.G. Sebalds

Museales Erzählen: Dinge, Räume, Narrative. ed. Johanna Stapelfeldt, Ulrike Vedder, and Klaus Wiehl. Wilhelm Fink., 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of “Fertigungs-/halle”: Paul Celan on Aktualität

In, Christine Ivanovic and Klaus Weissenberger, eds., Lifelines. Paul Celan’s Poetry and Poetic After 100/50 Years (Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition: Notes

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Research paper thumbnail of Hermann Broch's Massenwahnprojekt and its Relevance for our Times

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch, Eds. Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, and Galin Tihanov, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Mallarmé und die Mardistes: Meister und Jünger in einer säkularen Zeit

Germanic Languages and LiteraturesLiterature and Comparative Literatur

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Research paper thumbnail of The Vanishing Subject - Reply

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1981

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Research paper thumbnail of The novel after theory

Choice Reviews Online, 2012

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Knowing TheoryPart 1: Theories of Textuality 1. The Death of the Aut... more AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Knowing TheoryPart 1: Theories of Textuality 1. The Death of the Author2. Structure, Sign, and PlayPart 2: Psychological Theories 3. The Mirror Stage4. Women's TimePart 3: Theories of Society 5. Systems of Constraint6. Simulacra and Simulation7. Lines of FlightConclusion: Talking Back to TheoryNotesIndex

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Research paper thumbnail of Die ›allomatische Lösung‹: Gespaltene Persönlichkeit und Konfiguration bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 1970

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Research paper thumbnail of Die Töchter

World Literature Today, 1977

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Research paper thumbnail of Der Besiegte

World Literature Today, 1978

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry

Modern Language Review, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Literary Modernism

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Research paper thumbnail of Du, der ichs nicht sage...": Lyrisches und sachliches Sagen in Rilkes Gedichten 1906-1911

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Research paper thumbnail of Resistance and Resignation: A Re-Interpretation of Günter Grass’ Katz und Maus

The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 1977

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Research paper thumbnail of Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja

Modernity and the Text, 1989

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Research paper thumbnail of “Broch’s Esch: Theory of Colonialism and the German Colonial Aftermath”

Hermann Broch Visionary in Exile, 2002

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Research paper thumbnail of “Kolonialismus in W.G. Sebalds Roman Austerlitz”

Kolonialismus Und Deutsche Literatur Impulse Der Angloamerikanischen Literatur Und Kulturtheorie, 2005

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cambridge introduction to German poetry

Choice Reviews Online, Jul 23, 2013

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exploring the poem 2. Poetic roles in early song-lyrics 3. Devotional ... more Preface Acknowledgments 1. Exploring the poem 2. Poetic roles in early song-lyrics 3. Devotional poetry 4. The rhetoric of passion 5. Classical Antiquity and modern experience 6. Romantic poetry and the problem of lyric unity 7. The self and the senses 8. Modernism and difficulty 9. Poetry after Auschwitz 10. The strain of political poetry Working on the text Writing up your close reading German metrics Index.

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Research paper thumbnail of 'Ägyptische Erinnerungen' : Zur Frage des Fragmentarischen in Rilkes später Lyrik.

Nach Duino: Studien zu Rainer Maria Rilkes späten Gedichten. Ed. Karen Leeder & Robert Vilain. Göttingen: Wallstein., 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of The Durs Grünbein Debacle and his poem "Die Voliere der Malerei"

Interkulturelle Dialoge: Exil und Gegenwartsliteratur, Europa- und Kunst-Diskurse, 2023

Explores reasons for Raddatz' negative view of Grünbein using an analysis of the latter's poem "D... more Explores reasons for Raddatz' negative view of Grünbein using an analysis of the latter's poem "Die Voliere der Malerei" and his interest in paintings by Matisse.

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Research paper thumbnail of Zwischen Zeilen und Zeiten. Museales Erzählen in den Prosafiktionen W.G. Sebalds

Museales Erzählen: Dinge, Räume, Narrative. ed. Johanna Stapelfeldt, Ulrike Vedder, and Klaus Wiehl. Wilhelm Fink., 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of “Fertigungs-/halle”: Paul Celan on Aktualität

In, Christine Ivanovic and Klaus Weissenberger, eds., Lifelines. Paul Celan’s Poetry and Poetic After 100/50 Years (Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition: Notes

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Research paper thumbnail of Hermann Broch's Massenwahnprojekt and its Relevance for our Times

A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch, Eds. Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, and Galin Tihanov, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Mallarmé und die Mardistes: Meister und Jünger in einer säkularen Zeit

Germanic Languages and LiteraturesLiterature and Comparative Literatur

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Research paper thumbnail of The Vanishing Subject - Reply

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1981

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Research paper thumbnail of The novel after theory

Choice Reviews Online, 2012

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Knowing TheoryPart 1: Theories of Textuality 1. The Death of the Aut... more AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Knowing TheoryPart 1: Theories of Textuality 1. The Death of the Author2. Structure, Sign, and PlayPart 2: Psychological Theories 3. The Mirror Stage4. Women's TimePart 3: Theories of Society 5. Systems of Constraint6. Simulacra and Simulation7. Lines of FlightConclusion: Talking Back to TheoryNotesIndex

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Research paper thumbnail of Die ›allomatische Lösung‹: Gespaltene Persönlichkeit und Konfiguration bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 1970

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Research paper thumbnail of Die Töchter

World Literature Today, 1977

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Research paper thumbnail of Der Besiegte

World Literature Today, 1978

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Research paper thumbnail of The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry

Modern Language Review, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Literary Modernism

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Research paper thumbnail of Du, der ichs nicht sage...": Lyrisches und sachliches Sagen in Rilkes Gedichten 1906-1911

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Research paper thumbnail of Resistance and Resignation: A Re-Interpretation of Günter Grass’ Katz und Maus

The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 1977

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Research paper thumbnail of Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja

Modernity and the Text, 1989

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Research paper thumbnail of “Broch’s Esch: Theory of Colonialism and the German Colonial Aftermath”

Hermann Broch Visionary in Exile, 2002

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Research paper thumbnail of “Kolonialismus in W.G. Sebalds Roman Austerlitz”

Kolonialismus Und Deutsche Literatur Impulse Der Angloamerikanischen Literatur Und Kulturtheorie, 2005

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Research paper thumbnail of JRyan Novel After Theory Columbia UP 2012 introduction semifinal

This semi-final version of the "Introduction" to my book, The Novel After Theory, presents an ini... more This semi-final version of the "Introduction" to my book, The Novel After Theory, presents an initial overview of the ways in which recent novels can be said to "know about" French post-structuralist theory. The copy editor made some small but useful suggestions that I incorporated in the published book. Please do check with the final, published text before quoting from this pre-publication version of the chapter.

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Research paper thumbnail of Judith Ryan, "Rilke's "Der Geist Ariel' and the Problem of 'Bezug" (Engiish version given as talk at Rilke-Gesellschaft conference, London 2015)

This is a first version of a subsequent German-language paper. It was a contribution to the annua... more This is a first version of a subsequent German-language paper. It was a contribution to the annual conference of the Rilke-Gesellschaft in London in 2015. I elaborated it somewhat for the German-language version. A full reference to the published version is given at the end of this draft version; please cite the German version if you read German.
The argument of this paper is that Rilke's poem "Der Geist Ariel" (written in 1913) should not be considered a pastiche (as I had erroneously claimed on some earlier occasions), but as a fully fledged, original poem inits own right.

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