Ulrike Draesner’s Short Stories. The Intensity of Form

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents XIII
5. A Note on Translations XV
6. Illustrations XVII
7. History and the Text
8. Narrating History. Ulrike Draesner’s Lichtpause, Spiele, and Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt 3
9. Regenerating Europe in Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt 17
10. Voices from the Past? Poetic Presence of Medieval References 37
11. The Limits of the Human
12. Just Hanging in There. Reproduction, Humanity and Ethics in the Work of Ulrike Draesner 59
13. Photography and the Posthuman in Ulrike Draesner’s Mitgift and Vorliebe 77
14. ‘Twin Spin’. Ulrike Draesner’s Poetry of Science 95
15. Beyond Form(s)
16. The Connection between Body, Language and Image. Intermediality in Ulrike Draesner’s Poetry 119
17. Ulrike Draesner’s Short Stories. The Intensity of Form 145
18. ‘Stoffwechsel’
19. Metamorphosis. Ulrike Draesner’s Poetics of Knowledge 169
20. German Is a Foreign Anguish. Draesner and the Sprite of Translation 189
21. Ode to the Secret Atomic Flow of the World. Mein Hiddensee 215
22. The Felt Self
23. The Indecipherable Stone. Interview with Ulrike Draesner on the Processes of Literature 237
24. Schwitters 251
25. Poems 261
26. Bibliography 271
27. Contributors 289
28. Index 291