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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.

The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film

Author : Axel Bangert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139052
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film by : Axel Bangert

Download or read book The Nazi Past in Contemporary German Film written by Axel Bangert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that, since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from within.

The History of German Literature on Film

Author : Christiane Schönfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162892375X
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of German Literature on Film by : Christiane Schönfeld

Download or read book The History of German Literature on Film written by Christiane Schönfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.

The Inability to Love

Author : Agnes C. Mueller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810130173
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Inability to Love written by Agnes C. Mueller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.

Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture

Author : Laurel Cohen-Pfister
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134336
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture by : Laurel Cohen-Pfister

Download or read book Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture written by Laurel Cohen-Pfister and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the generation in today's German culture and literature, and its role in German identity. In the debates since 1945 on German history and culture, the concept of generations has become ever more prominent. Recent and ongoing shifts in how the various generations are seen -- and see themselves -- in relation to historyand to each other have taken on key importance in contemporary German cultural studies. The seismic events of twentieth-century German history are no longer solely first-generational lived experiences but are also historical moments seen through the eyes of successor generations. The generation, seen as a category of memory, thus holds a key to major shifts in German identity. The changing generational perspectives of German writers and filmmakers not onlyreflect but also influence these trends, exposing both the expected differences between generational views and unexpected continuities. Moreover, as younger artists reframe recent history, older generations like the 1968ers are also contributing to these shifts by reassessing their own experiences and cultural contributions. This volume of new essays applies current discourse on generations in German culture to contemporary works dealing with major sociohistorical events since the Nazi period. Contributors: Svea Bräunert, Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Friederike Eigler, Thomas C. Fox, Katharina Gerstenberger, Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, Ilka Rasch, Susanne Rinner, Caroline Schaumann, Maria Stehle, Reinhild Steingröver, Susanne Vees-Gulani. Laurel Cohen-Pfister is Associate Professor of German at Gettysburg College, and Susanne Vees-Gulani is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University.

The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Author : R. Crownshaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294588
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture by : R. Crownshaw

Download or read book The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture written by R. Crownshaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.

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.

Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer

Author : Norbert Bachleitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110641976
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer written by Norbert Bachleitner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.

Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature

Author : Katherine Stone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113994X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature by : Katherine Stone

Download or read book Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature written by Katherine Stone and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however, the women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were committed by men. They are frequently imagined as post hoc redeemers of the nation, as the "rubble women" who spiritually and literally rebuilt Germany. This book investigates why the question of women's complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture the historical imagination in the same way. It explores how female authors from across the political and generational spectrum (Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner, Tanja D ckers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in the Third Reich. As well as offering innovative re-readings of celebrated works, this book provides instructive interpretations of lesser-known texts that nonetheless enrich our understanding of German memory culture. Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Remembering Africa

Author : Dirk Göttsche
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135464
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Africa written by Dirk Göttsche and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies"--Publisher website, July 5, 2013.

Born Under Auschwitz

Author : Mary Cosgrove
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135561
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Born Under Auschwitz written by Mary Cosgrove and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.

Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134867
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989 by : Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Download or read book Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989 written by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary views of the debates over and transformation of German cultural identity since unification. The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects, and the wider public engaged in "memory contests" over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the normalization of German history. This dynamic, contested, and still ongoing transformation of German cultural identity is the topic of this volume of new essays by scholars from the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Ireland. It exploresGerman cultural identity by way of a range of disciplines including history, film studies, architectural history, literary criticism, memory studies, and anthropology, avoiding a homogenized interpretation. Charting the complex and often contradictory processes of cultural identity formation, the volume reveals the varied responses that continue to accompany the project of unification. Contributors: Pertti Ahonen, Aleida Assmann, Elizabeth Boa, Peter Fritzsche, Anne Fuchs, Deniz Göktürk, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Anja K. Johannsen, Jennifer A. Jordan, Jürgen Paul, Linda Shortt, Andrew J. Webber. Anne Fuchs is Professor of German Literature at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Linda Shortt is Lecturer in German at Bangor University, Wales.

After the Dresden Bombing

Author : A. Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230359523
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book After the Dresden Bombing written by A. Fuchs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape.

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

Author : Sarah Colvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317600142
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture written by Sarah Colvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain historical pathways to contemporary Germany the current ‘Berlin Republic’ society and diversity Germany and Europe Germany and the world. This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.

Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture

Author : Brigid Haines
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113552
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture written by Brigid Haines and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers... were delivered at a conference, Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture, which was held in honour of Professor Rhys W. Williams ... the conference took place, from 31 August to 2 September 2008, at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog Hall" --Foreword.

Representing the "good German" in Literature and Culture After 1945

Author : Pól Ó Dochartaigh
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134980
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Representing the "good German" in Literature and Culture After 1945 written by Pól Ó Dochartaigh and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans asevil. That search has never really stopped. In the past few years, we have witnessed a burgeoning of cultural representations of this "other" kind of Third Reich citizen - the "good German" - as opposed to the committed Nazi or genocidal maniac. Such representations have highlighted individuals' choices in favor of dissenting behavior, moral truth, or at the very least civil disobedience. The "good German's" counterhegemonic practice cannot negate or contradict the barbaric reality of Hitler's Germany, but reflects a value system based on humanity and an "other" ideal community. This volume of new essays explores postwar and recent representations of "good Germans" during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity found in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function and reception of "Good Germans" in Germany and abroad. Contributors: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Bragança, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon Hughes, Karina von Lindeiner-Strásky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pól O Dochartaigh, Christiane Schönfeld, Matthias Uecker. Pól O Dochartaigh is Professor of German and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Christiane Schönfeld is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom

Author : B. Vollmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137307544
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom written by B. Vollmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path.