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Address: PD Dr. Caspar Battegay
Universität Basel
Deutsches Seminar
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften,
Nadelberg 4
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Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies / Jahrbuch für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien, hg. von Alfred Bodenheimer, Vivian Liska (Bd.10, Heft 1, hg. von Luisa Banki / Sebastian Schirrmeister), De Gruyter., 2023
Andreas Mauz/Daniel Weidner (Hgg.): Arbeit am Paradigma. Bestandsaufnahme zur Forschung zu Literatur und Religion, Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag [in Vorbereitung].
German Jewish Literature after 1990, ed. by Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller, Camden House, 2018
Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie, 2019
Heinz Drügh / Susanne Komfort-Hein (Hgg.): Christian Krachts Ästhetik, Metzler Verlag , 2019
Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart. Zwischen Literarizität und Programmatik. Sonderausgabe Nr. 01: Jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart, hg. von Micha Brumlik / Marina Chernivsky / Max Czollek / Hannah Peaceman Anna Schapiro / Lea Wohl von Haselberg, 2019
Germanica 65: Marcel Reich-Ranicki - une critiqe littéraire populaire, ed. Stephanie Baumann et Bénédicte Terrisse, 2019
Caspar Battegay/Kai Wiegandt/Lena Henningsen (Hrsg.): Gegessen? Essen und Erinnerung in den Literaturen der Welt, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2019
Hubert Thüring / Ulrich Weber (Hgg.): Literatur und (ihre) Institutionen. Hetero- und Autonomie der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Schweiz, Zürich: Chronos Verlag
Heine-Jahrbuch 2017 (56. Jahrgang), 48-68.
Marisa Siguan / Linda Maeding (Hgg.): Utopie im Exil. Literarische Figurationen des Imaginären, Bielefeld: transcript 2017, 173-194.
The German Quarterly 89,2 (2016), 186-201.
Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specifi... more Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specific understanding of nostalgia in Joseph Roth's late literary work, conceptualizing it not in a psychological or political sense, but as a poetics of storytelling. At the center of this discussion is the notion of narrative performativity in Beichte eines Mörders erzählt in einer Nacht (1936), and I argue that the practice of storytelling can be read as a nostalgic and ironic gesture that comments on the modern crisis of the perception of time. While the hypodiegetic narrator of Beichte is stylized as an authentic oral storyteller, who nostalgically recounts his experiences and opens up a space that transcends the chronological notion of time, his nostalgia is undermined by the ironic frame narrative in which it is embedded. The metaleptic structure at the end of the novel breaks the narrative illusion of a realistic plot and negates any nostalgic appropriations. Experiencing the storyteller does not create a meaningful community of listeners, but instead forms strange echoes—doublings—that confuse the narrative order. This reading shows Roth as a genuine modern writer who provides a model for the function of literature as an answer to the modern obsession with progress and newness.
Connected Jews: Expressions of Community in Analogue and Digital Culture, ed. by Caspar Battegay and Simon J. Bronner, Liverpool University Press/The Littman Library of Jewish Civilizations 2018 (Jewish Cultural Studies Vol 6), S. 109-129.
Esther Kilchmann (Hg.): artefrakte. Auseinandersetzungen mit Holocaust und Zweitem Weltkrieg in experimentellen Verfahren in Kunst und Literatur, Köln / Weimar / Wien: Böhlau 2016, 283-300.
Clemens Peck / Florian Sedlmeier (Hg.): Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte. Genres - Medien - Techniken. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2015.
Cahier de l'Herne Franz Kafka, ed. Jean-Pierre Morel et Wolfgang Asholt, Paris: Edition de l'herne, p. 257-263., 2014
Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies / Jahrbuch für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien, hg. von Alfred Bodenheimer, Vivian Liska (Bd.10, Heft 1, hg. von Luisa Banki / Sebastian Schirrmeister), De Gruyter., 2023
Andreas Mauz/Daniel Weidner (Hgg.): Arbeit am Paradigma. Bestandsaufnahme zur Forschung zu Literatur und Religion, Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag [in Vorbereitung].
German Jewish Literature after 1990, ed. by Katja Garloff and Agnes Mueller, Camden House, 2018
Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie, 2019
Heinz Drügh / Susanne Komfort-Hein (Hgg.): Christian Krachts Ästhetik, Metzler Verlag , 2019
Jalta. Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart. Zwischen Literarizität und Programmatik. Sonderausgabe Nr. 01: Jüdische Literaturen der Gegenwart, hg. von Micha Brumlik / Marina Chernivsky / Max Czollek / Hannah Peaceman Anna Schapiro / Lea Wohl von Haselberg, 2019
Germanica 65: Marcel Reich-Ranicki - une critiqe littéraire populaire, ed. Stephanie Baumann et Bénédicte Terrisse, 2019
Caspar Battegay/Kai Wiegandt/Lena Henningsen (Hrsg.): Gegessen? Essen und Erinnerung in den Literaturen der Welt, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2019
Hubert Thüring / Ulrich Weber (Hgg.): Literatur und (ihre) Institutionen. Hetero- und Autonomie der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Schweiz, Zürich: Chronos Verlag
Heine-Jahrbuch 2017 (56. Jahrgang), 48-68.
Marisa Siguan / Linda Maeding (Hgg.): Utopie im Exil. Literarische Figurationen des Imaginären, Bielefeld: transcript 2017, 173-194.
The German Quarterly 89,2 (2016), 186-201.
Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specifi... more Borrowing from Svetlana Boym's concept of “reflective nostalgia,” this article advances a specific understanding of nostalgia in Joseph Roth's late literary work, conceptualizing it not in a psychological or political sense, but as a poetics of storytelling. At the center of this discussion is the notion of narrative performativity in Beichte eines Mörders erzählt in einer Nacht (1936), and I argue that the practice of storytelling can be read as a nostalgic and ironic gesture that comments on the modern crisis of the perception of time. While the hypodiegetic narrator of Beichte is stylized as an authentic oral storyteller, who nostalgically recounts his experiences and opens up a space that transcends the chronological notion of time, his nostalgia is undermined by the ironic frame narrative in which it is embedded. The metaleptic structure at the end of the novel breaks the narrative illusion of a realistic plot and negates any nostalgic appropriations. Experiencing the storyteller does not create a meaningful community of listeners, but instead forms strange echoes—doublings—that confuse the narrative order. This reading shows Roth as a genuine modern writer who provides a model for the function of literature as an answer to the modern obsession with progress and newness.
Connected Jews: Expressions of Community in Analogue and Digital Culture, ed. by Caspar Battegay and Simon J. Bronner, Liverpool University Press/The Littman Library of Jewish Civilizations 2018 (Jewish Cultural Studies Vol 6), S. 109-129.
Esther Kilchmann (Hg.): artefrakte. Auseinandersetzungen mit Holocaust und Zweitem Weltkrieg in experimentellen Verfahren in Kunst und Literatur, Köln / Weimar / Wien: Böhlau 2016, 283-300.
Clemens Peck / Florian Sedlmeier (Hg.): Kriminalliteratur und Wissensgeschichte. Genres - Medien - Techniken. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2015.
Cahier de l'Herne Franz Kafka, ed. Jean-Pierre Morel et Wolfgang Asholt, Paris: Edition de l'herne, p. 257-263., 2014
WoZ (Wochenzeitung), 2024
NZZ am Sonntag (Bücher am Sonntag), 2023
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2. April, 2022
WoZ (Wochenzeitung), 2021
in: Musil-Forum, Band 34 (2015/16), hg. von Norbert Christian Wolf und Rosmarie Zeller, Berlin: d... more in: Musil-Forum, Band 34 (2015/16), hg. von Norbert Christian Wolf und Rosmarie Zeller, Berlin: de Gruyter 2016, S. 395-399.
The Star for Beginners. Introduction to the Magnum Opus of Franz Rosenzweig, edited by Martin Brasser, Petar Bojanić and Francesco Paolo Ciglia. Ubiquity Press London, 2021
U. Weber / A. Mauz / M. Stingelin (Hg.), Dürrenmatt-Handbuch, 2020
U. Weber / A. Mauz / M. Stingelin (Hg.), Dürrenmatt-Handbuch, 2020
In: Hans Otto Horch (Hg.): Handbuch der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur, Berlin: De Gruyter 2015, 270-280.
What are the various interfaces between mind, wo/man, and machine and how can these interfaces be... more What are the various interfaces between mind, wo/man, and machine and how can these interfaces be further explored within and across different dis- ciplines? In this conference, we will investigate the complex interaction between humans and machines as well as various ways of reverse-engineering the brain. We will discuss current approaches, theories, and methodologies in this field, and also identify shared research interests, which might lead to future collaborations between the humanities and the sciences, between members of both academies, and beyond.
While the conference will be open to the public, the workshop on Tuesday evening is restricted to mem- bers of the German and Israel Young Academies.
To attend the conference, please register via email (manmindmachine@diejungeakademie.de)
by 08 June.
Aufbau. Das jüdische Magazin Nr. 5, S. 17-19, 2021
Pop. Kultur und Kritik 8 (Herbst 2015), 130-151.