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German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-first Century

Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133380
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Book Synopsis German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-first Century by : Stuart Taberner

Download or read book German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-first Century written by Stuart Taberner and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany's self-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major study in English or German of the impact of the normalization debate across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst, Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen, William Collins, Donahue, Katharine Schödel, Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.

"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film

Author : Paul Cooke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268477
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis "The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film by : Paul Cooke

Download or read book "The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film written by Paul Cooke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies.

Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic

Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133933
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic by : Stuart Taberner

Download or read book Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic written by Stuart Taberner and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s and examines shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation."--BOOK JACKET.

“Wenn sie das Wort Ich gebraucht”.

Author : John Pustejovsky
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120960X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis “Wenn sie das Wort Ich gebraucht”. by : John Pustejovsky

Download or read book “Wenn sie das Wort Ich gebraucht”. written by John Pustejovsky and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of original essays celebrates Barbara Becker-Cantarino, whose prolific publications on German literary culture from 1600 to the twentieth century are major milestones in the field of German cultural studies. The range of topics in the collection reflects the breadth of Becker-Cantarino’s scholarship. Examining literature from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the contributors explore the intersections of gender, race, and genre, history and gender, and gender and violence. They provide fresh readings of the works of known and lesser-known writers, including Cyriacus Spangenberg, Maria Anna Sagers Luise Gottsched, Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Wedekind, Christa Wolf, Helga Schütz, Terézia Mora, and Martina Hefter. Their discussions explore the possibilities and limitations of theoretical discourses on travel literature, deconstruction, and gender and suggest new avenues of investigation.

Entertaining German Culture

Author : Stephan Ehrig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390562
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining German Culture written by Stephan Ehrig and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 14

Author : Frauke Matthes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140840
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh German Yearbook 14 written by Frauke Matthes and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.

German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135847
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century by : Hester Baer

Download or read book German Women's Writing in the Twenty-first Century written by Hester Baer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.

A Nation of Victims?

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204454
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Victims? written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The re-emergence of the issue of wartime suffering to the fore of German public discourse represents the greatest shift in German memory culture since the Historikerstreit of the 1980s. The (international) attention and debates triggered by, for example, W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur, Günter Grass’s Im Krebsgang, Jörg Friedrich’s Der Brand testify to a change in focus away from the victims of National Socialism to the traumatic experience of the ‘perpetrator collective’ and its legacies. The volume brings together German, English and Israeli literary and film scholars and historians addressing issues surrounding the representation of German wartime suffering from the immediate post-war period to the present in literature, film and public commemorative discourse. Split into four sections, the volume discusses the representation of Germans as victims in post-war literature and film, the current memory politics of the Bund der Vertriebenen, the public commemoration of the air raids on Hamburg and Dresden and their representation in film, photography, historiography and literature, the impact and reception of W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur, the representation of flight and expulsion in contemporary writing, the problem of empathy in representations of Germans as victims and the representation of suffering and National Socialism in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film Der Untergang.

Holocaust Angst

Author : Jacob S. Eder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237821
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Angst written by Jacob S. Eder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the German effort to rehabilitate its international reputation in the wake of the Holocaust, this study examines German-American relations from the 1970s through 1990.

Empathetic Memorials

Author : Mark Callaghan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303050932X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Empathetic Memorials written by Mark Callaghan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorial’s ambiguity or to complement the design’s visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.

Religion and Identity in Germany Today

Author : Frank Finlay
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034301565
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Identity in Germany Today written by Frank Finlay and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors address a range of issues, including the controversial building of a mosque in Cologne & pressure experienced by German Jews to reconnect with a religion that their forebears cast off sometimes more than a century ago.

Between the Forest and the Road

Author : Stephan Ehrig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390570
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Between the Forest and the Road written by Stephan Ehrig and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.

Memory and Political Change

Author : A. Assmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230354246
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Political Change written by A. Assmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

Mann's Magic Mountain

Author : Karolina Watroba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019287179X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Mann's Magic Mountain written by Karolina Watroba and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the interrelated fields of transnational German studies, global modernism studies, comparative literature, and reception theory: it addresses the global circulation of German modernism, popular afterlives of a canonical work, access to cultural participation, relationship between so-called 'high-brow' and 'low-brow' culture, and the limitations of traditional academic reading practices. The study intervenes in these discussions by developing a critical practice termed 'closer reading' and positioning it within the framework of world literature studies. Mann's Magic Mountain centres around nine comparative readings of five novels, three films, and one short story conceived as responses to The Magic Mountain. These works provide access to distinct readings of Mann's text on three levels: they function as records of their authors' reading of Mann, provide insights into broader culturally and historically specific interpretations of the novel, and feature portrayals of fictional readers of The Magic Mountain. These nine case studies are contextualized, complemented, enhanced, and expanded through references to hundreds of other diverse sources that testify to a lively engagement with The Magic Mountain outside of academic scholarship, including journalistic reviews, discussions on internet fora and blogs, personal essays and memoirs, Mann's fan mail and his replies to it, publishing advertisements, and marketing brochures from Davos, where the novel is set.

Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

Author : A. Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589723
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse written by A. Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History

Author : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135960
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Wall German Cinema and National History by : Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien

Download or read book Post-Wall German Cinema and National History written by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German history films that focus on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989. Since unification, a radical shift has taken place in Germans' view of their country's immediate past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. The cold-war division, the failed socialist state, the '68 student movement, and the Red Army Faction -- historical flashpoints involving political oppression, civil disobedience, and the longing for utopian solutions to social injustice -- have come to be seen as decisive moments in a collective history that unites East and West even as it divides them. Telling stories about a shared past, establishing foundational myths, and finding commonalities of experience are pivotal steps in the construction of national identity. Such nation-building is always incomplete, but the cinema provides an important forum in which notions of German history and national identity can be consumed, negotiated, and contested. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. It studies the genre - including popular successes, critical successes, and perceived failures - as a set of texts and a discursive network, gauging which conventions and storylines are resilient. At issue is the overriding question: to what extent do these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state? Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is Professor of Germanand The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.

The Collapse of the Conventional

Author : Jaimey Fisher
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333778
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the Conventional written by Jaimey Fisher and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together many of the most important scholars of German film, this hugely significant collection offers a fascinating and subtle account of the contours of the political in the post-Wall cinematic landscape."---Paul Cooke, professor of German cultural studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds --Book Jacket.