TY - BOOK AU - Kluge,Alexander AU - Langston,Richard TI - Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader T2 - signale|TRANSFER. German theory in translation SN - 9781501739224 PY - 2019/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Kluge, Alexander KW - gnd KW - Literatur KW - Film KW - Literaturtheorie KW - Filmtheorie KW - Literature-History and criticism KW - Motion pictures-History KW - Social sciences-Philosophy KW - Electronic books KW - Fernzugriff N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Difference and Orientation -- Contents -- Translator Information -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge by Richard Langston -- Part II Literature -- 1. The Difference: Heinrich von Kleist (1985) -- 2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001) -- 3. The Peacemaker (2003) -- 4. Companions in Now-Time (2007) -- 5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008) -- 6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013) -- 7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016) -- Part III Film -- 8. Word and Film (1965) by Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge, and Wilfried Reinke -- 9. Bits of Conversation (1966) -- 10. The Realistic Method and the "Filmic" (1975) -- 11. Film: A Utopia (1983) -- 12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008) -- 13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012) -- Part IV From Classical to New Media: Opera, Television, Internet -- 14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983/84) -- 15. On the Expressions "Media" and "New Media": A Selection of Keywords (1984) -- 16. Medialization-Musealization (1990) -- 17. The Opera Machine (2001) -- 18. Primitive Diversity (2002) -- 19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010) -- Part V Theory -- 20. The Role of Fantasy (1974) -- 21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989) -- 22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of "Populism" (1992) -- 23. War (2001) -- 24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003) -- 25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007) -- 26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009) -- 27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (2013) -- 28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016) -- Index N2 - Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5885513 ER -