Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900 - 2015: Between Acceleration and Slowness

Introduction: Faulty Clocks, Human Errors and the Management of Time in Modernity and Late Modernity; Anne Fuchs and J. J. Long
PART I
1. Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration, Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse; Anne Fuchs
2. How Long does the Present Last? Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon; Aleida Assmann
3. Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports; Kathleen James-Chakraborty
PART II
4. Epistemology, Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900; Dirk Göttsche
5. Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka's Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912; Elizabeth Boa
6. Icons of Speed - Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture; Matthias Uecker
7. Snapshot, Composite, Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic; J. J. Long
8. Syncope, Pause, Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration; Carolin Duttlinger
PART III
9. 'Good Work': Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold's Barbara; Andrew J. Webber
10. Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the 'Information Rapids' with Angela Krauß; Gillian Pye
11. The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature; Mary Cosgrove
Bibliography
Index