Time Capsules by Johannes Endres
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The article investigates the multilingual features inherent in one of the most elaborate and erud... more The article investigates the multilingual features inherent in one of the most elaborate and erudite time capsule projects of the early 20 th century, the so-called Westinghouse Time Capsule of Cupalloy, contrived for, and deposited at, the 1939 World Fair in New York. In its endeavor to pass on an authentic snapshot of the material and intellectual culture of its time to a distant future, the Westinghouse Time Capsule had to solve a number of technical and logistic problems. For instance, it had to come up with a paratextual apparatus to keep its message intelligible to those who will receive it in the year 6939, the capsule's ambitious target date. Part of its paratextual apparatus is a Rosetta Stone-like 'key to the English language', which, together with other internal and external provisions thought up by the capsule's creators, functions much like similar provisions at work in the canonization of classical texts. Central to the classicalness of certain texts and the longevity of the time capsule is an internal multilingualism, which operates underneath a seemingly monolingual surface in order to assure the readibility and timeless significance of the cultural legacy at stake.
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Interdisciplinary Romantic Studies by Johannes Endres
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Gestern. Romantik. Heute. Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur, 2022
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German Quarterly, 93:2, 2020
In his poem “Die Braut von Corinth” (1797), Goethe introduces the figure of the vampire as an ear... more In his poem “Die Braut von Corinth” (1797), Goethe introduces the figure of the vampire as an early agent of his concept of “Weltliteratur.” As such, his female vampire challenges critical assumptions of a cultural divide between Christian and “pagan” religions, vampire believers and non‐believers, and finally Western and Eastern literatures. Instead, Goethe's “Braut” offers herself as a specimen of literary and cultural hybridity in a textual format entertained by Goethe for its liminality and heterogeneity—that of the “Ballade.” As a genre of originality without origin, the “Ballade” features a, in Homi Bhabha's sense of the term, “traumatic” encounter with the unfathomable—the living dead, monstrous affection, and transcultural alterity—that can not be reconciled with one's own world view, but only endured. Once endured, however, the disparate starts to form alliances across boundaries that Goethe will later refer to as “Weltliteratur.”
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Intermediality by Johannes Endres
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