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215. 'BIS ZUM HORIZONTE DIESER KLEINEN WELT': TRAVEL WRITING, UTOPIANISM, AND KARL MAY. ROBERT MÜLLER'S TROPEN.

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KROBB, FLORIAN

Subjects
*IMPERIALISM in literature, *TRAVEL literature
Abstract

The article argues that Robert Müller's Expressionist critique of colonialism as an opportunity for perfection and renewal benefits from acknowledgement of Müller's encounter with Karl May, then Germany's most popular writer of adventurous travel literature. In Tropen (1915) Müller engages with May through an interplay of affirmation (of May's utopian universality) and demarcation (from the latter's optimistic naivety) amounting to a farcical inversion of many assumptions of travel writing. A glance at Georg Heym's unfinished Das Tagebuch Shakletons (1909) suggests similarities regarding a shared epistemological scepticism which challenges any belief in the ability of travel to generate knowledge and insight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2015
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242. "Welch' unbebautes und riesengroßes Feld": Turkey as Colonial Space in German World War I Writings.

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Krobb, Florian

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*WORLD War I, *INTERNATIONAL alliances, *ORIENTALISM, *IMPERIALISM & society, *ISLAM, *MASS media, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY, *THEMES in literature, GERMAN colonies, GERMANY-Turkey relations
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The outbreak of World War I spawned a flood of pamphlets in which the Turco-German alliance was promoted and visions for a Germanization of Ottoman space were articulated. Academics and political commentators mapped this area in distinctly colonialist terms; journalists praised the potential of German intervention; but early accounts by German soldiers expressed disappointment regarding the apparent loss of cultural distinctness in the process of modernization. In these publications, Orientalist desire and projection reached a unique intensity as the military alliance and the realities of warfare were welcomed as catalysts for the realization of old ambitions and the implementation of colonialist designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2014
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248. »Vertuschungs ver suche« Robert Müllers Tropen: Kriminalroman und Tragikomödie

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Krobb, Florian

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In diesem Beitrag wird angeregt, die beiden in Robert Müllers Roman Tropenenthaltenen Gattungsbestimmungen als Drama (Tragikomödie) und als Kriminalgeschichte ernst zu nehmen und für die Interpretation fruchtbar zu machen. In diesem Licht stellt der Reisebericht seine eigene Glaubwürdigkeit als Zeugenaussage auf den Prüfstand und konstruiert den geistesgestörten Erzähler als ›tragische‹ Täterfigur. This contributions attempts to investigate the potential of the two explicit genre designations found in Robert Müller’s novel Tropenas drama (›tragicomedy‹) and crime fiction for the interpretation of the text. At stake is the reliability and forensic validity of the text as witness statement; the mentally deranged narrator’s culpability is thereby revealed as ›tragic‹.

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2015
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