Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil. By Hans Staden. Edited and translated by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp.civ, 206. $23.95.)

Historian ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-587
Author(s):  
Judy Bieber
Keyword(s):  
Hans Staden ◽  
Duke University

From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pfau
Keyword(s):  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Narrative Process ◽  
Radical Transformation

Thomas Pfau (Duke University) explores the radical transformation of the Bildungsroman - and of the image ( Bild ) as its narrative, speculative fuel - in ‘The Magic Mountain’. Contrasting Mann's narrative process with that of Goethe and Hegel, and drawing on the sociological writings of Georg Simmel and Arnold Gehlen, Pfau reads Mann's novel as decisively breaking with Romanticism's self-generating, organicist, and teleological conception of cultural narrative.

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