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Volker Braun in Perspective

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334467
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Volker Braun in Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of Volker Braun's 65th and GDR/German Monitor's 25th birthday an attempt is made to re-evaluate Braun's contribution to 20th and 21st century German literature. The seventeen essays of the collection, written by a truly international set of scholars, demonstrate the unique quality and breadth of Braun's writing, spanning all literary genres. But not only that, they also reveal the diversity of interpretative perspectives which Braun's oeuvre productively stimulates. They showcase an author who refuses to indulge complacently in past achievements and an opus that defies all attempts at labelling. Braun's texts, so the verdict of the contributors, are driven by an insatiable thirst for the whole story, the depth beneath the superficial, the complex truth of our human predicament; for the precise expression which is not caught up in the limitations of the dominant ideology, whatever it might be.

Humor, Satire, and Identity

Author : Jill Twark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110958147
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Humor, Satire, and Identity written by Jill Twark and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to survey the Eastern German literary trend of employing humor and satire to come to terms with experiences in the German Democratic Republic and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As sophisticated attempts to make sense of socialism’s failure and a difficult unification process, these contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, Eastern German perspective. Grounded in politics and history, ten humorous and satirical novels are analyzed for their literary aesthetics and language, cultural critiques, and socio-political insights. The texts include popular novels such as Thomas Brussig’s Helden wie wir, Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys, and Jens Sparschuh’s Der Zimmerspringbrunnen, as well as lesser-known but equally relevant works like Schlehweins Giraffe by Bernd Schirmer and Katerfrühstück by Erich Loest. A broad spectrum of humor and satire theories is applied to probe texts from various angles and suggest multi-layered answers to the question of how these literary modes function in postwall Germany to construct a specifically Eastern German identity. Interviews the author conducted with five of the satirists are appended as primary sources and contribute to the interpretation of the texts.

Humor, Satire, and Identity

Author : Jill E. Twark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110195996
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Humor, Satire, and Identity written by Jill E. Twark and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Eastern German literary trend of the 1990s employing humor and satire to come to terms with socialism's failure and a difficult unification process. This title surveys ten novels including, works by Brussig, Schulze, and Hensel. These contemporary texts help define Germany today from a specific, East German perspective.

Shifting Viewpoints

Author : Meg H. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443864358
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Viewpoints written by Meg H. Brown and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows that Cervantes’s works actively influenced the literature of a number of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This time period was marked by numerous significant events, including World War I, the first attempts at democracy, the rise of the Nazis, World War II, the division of Germany, and the eventual reunification of Germany. Representations of characters created by Cervantes reflect the shifting viewpoints of monarchism, imperialism, communism, fascism, socialism, and capitalism. A number of German-speaking authors of this time creatively modify Don Quixote, vacillating between regarding Don Quixote as a fool or a hero. The emphasis here is on the question of how an author uses Cervantes’s Don Quixote and The Conversation of the Dogs to come to terms with his or her own preoccupations in a given socio-political context. This book explores literary works by German-speaking authors that engage in an intertextual play with a text written by Cervantes.

Local - Global Narratives

Author : Renate Rechtien
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022612
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Local - Global Narratives written by Renate Rechtien and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade and a half, Germany has experienced a period of political and cultural turbulence which many have attributed to the combined challenges of unification and globalisation. In response to growing exposure to global markets, politics and migration debates about identity have increasingly been renationalised. At the same time, there has been a notable reappraisal in Germany (and in German Studies) of the regional and global as spaces for the construction of identity. This volume sets out to explore these complex and at times contradictory trends, focusing in particular on developments in Germany since the 1970s, although chapters treating earlier periods are also included. The volume brings together British, Irish, German, Canadian and American scholars working in the field, and resulted from a conference organised by Women in German Studies at the University of Bath. The first section is primarily concerned with the specifically German concept of locality known as Heimat and its changing relationship with the global. Included are explorations of the writings of Kafka, Bachmann, Johnson, Sell, Wolf, Brinkmann and Jelinek amongst others as well as films by Schlöndorff and Steyerl. The second section focuses on the impact of the global on institutions and rituals such as commemoration, memorialisation, and architecture, which have traditionally been influential in shaping national self-images. Overall, this volume concludes that the nature of the relationship to the local has fundamentally changed under the impact of globalisation.

Schaltstelle

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042032146
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Schaltstelle written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erstmals liegt mit Schaltstelle eine umfassende Studie zur zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Lyrik auf der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert vor. In einem breiten Spektrum an Beiträgen international renommierter Experten aus Deutschland, Großbritannien, den USA, Kanada, Italien und den Niederlanden präsentiert diese Untersuchung ausführliche Analysen zu bekannten Größen (wie Volker Braun, Ulrike Draesner, Durs Grünbein, Ernst Jandl, Barbara Köhler, Friederike Mayröcker, Brigitte Oleschinski und Raoul Schrott), eingehende Betrachtungen zur Lyrik des Körpers, zur Verwendung von Klischee-Bildern, zum Topos der Kindheit oder zur ‘neuen Schlichtheit’, sowie Beiträge zur jüngsten Generation von Dichterinnen und Dichtern, die im neuen Jahrhundert ihren Einstand gegeben haben. Untersuchungen zu individuellen Gedichtsammlungen ergänzen sich mit Abhandlungen, die Dialoge über die Jahrhundertgrenzen hinweg aufzeigen oder den Einfluß von Schlüsselfiguren wie Paul Celan und Gottfried Benn nachweisen. Zudem enthält der Band ein Interview mit Heinz Czechowski und neue Gedichte von acht führenden deutschsprachigen Lyrikerinnen und Lyrikern. Zu oft wird in Diskussionen zur Literatur in der Berliner Republik die Lyrik marginalisiert: dieser Band zeigt, daß sie im Gegenteil eine unerläßliche Rolle zu spielen hat. Für Wissenschaftler und Studierende der Germanistik, wie überhaupt für alle, die an den Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der modernen Lyrik interessiert sind, sollte diese Veröffentlichung zur Pflichtlektüre erhoben werden. Schaltstelle presents a pioneering examination of contemporary German poetry at the turn of the twenty-first century. Internationally recognised experts from Germany, UK, USA, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands offer a first assessment of the paths that German poetry has taken into the new millennium. Alongside in-depth analyses of established names are broader surveys of poetry of the body, the use of cliché, theories of metaphor, the topos of childhood, the ‘new simplicity’, and contributions dedicated to the youngest generation of poets making their debut in the new century. The volume also contains an interview with Heinz Czechowski, a substantial Bibliography and new poems by eight leading poets. Poetry is too often marginalised in discussions about literature in the Berlin Republic: this volume demonstrates that it has a vital role to play at their heart.

German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359788
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of academic articles and personal reflections explores German reunification and the legacy of GDR literature and culture. It examines a broad range of genres and combines perspectives on both lesser-known and more established writers.

Celluloid Revolt

Author : Christina Gerhardt
Publisher : Screen Cultures: German Film a
ISBN 13 : 1571139958
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Revolt written by Christina Gerhardt and published by Screen Cultures: German Film a. This book was released on 2019 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.

Commitment and Compassion

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401208077
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Commitment and Compassion written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer, scientist, philosopher, and radical democrat Georg Büchner (1813-1837) occupies a unique place in the cultural legacy of the German-speaking countries. Born into an epoch of inevitable, yet arrested historical transition, Büchner produced a small but exceptionally rich body of work. This collection of essays in English and in German considers the full spectrum of his writings, the political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote, the dramas Danton’s Tod, Leonce und Lena, Woyzeck, and the fragmentary narrative Lenz, as well as the letters, the philosophical lectures on Descartes and Spinoza, and the scientific texts. The essays examine connections between these works, study texts in detail, debate ways of editing them, and trace their reception in contemporary literature and film. The novel readings presented here not only celebrate Büchner on the eve of his bicentenary birthday but also insert this untimely figure into discussions of the revolution-restoration dynamic and realism in poetics and politics.

New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser

Author : Frank Pilipp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781879751675
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser written by Frank Pilipp and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical essays on contemporary German novelist. Martin Walser (born 1927) is one of the most prolific contemporary German novelists, and one with a place in world literature. His work provides an astute critical commentary in novelistic form on postwar Germany. The present volume comprises essays by eleven Walser experts on various aspects of his writings, with concentration on the novels of the last 15 years, books such as Runaway Horse (1978), The Inner Man (1979), The Swan Villa(1980), Letter to Lord Liszt (1982), and In Defense of Childhood (1991). Parallels and influences discussed in these studies include Schiller, Richardson, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Updike, Brecht, and Walter Kempowski.

Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature

Author : A. Goodbody
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589626
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature by : A. Goodbody

Download or read book Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature written by A. Goodbody and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces shifting attitudes towards science and technology, nature and the environment in Twentieth-century Germany. It approaches them through discussion of a range of literary texts and explores the philosophical influences on them and their political contexts, and asks what part novels and plays have played in environmental debate.

A State of Secrecy

Author : Alison Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640123792
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A State of Secrecy written by Alison Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.

World Cinema and Cultural Memory

Author : I. Hedges
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465123
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book World Cinema and Cultural Memory written by I. Hedges and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.

Textual Responses to German Unification

Author : Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110880407
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Textual Responses to German Unification written by Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unification of the two German states changed the geo-political, economic, social, and cultural borders of Germany and Europe. This volume in three parts researches how East German and West German authors and directors reacted to these radical changes. The basis of this research are fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and cinematic texts. The authors and directors presented in this volume not only comment on the changes which they themselves experienced but also voice their changing attitudes to their own past within the divided Germany.

Violence Elsewhere 1

Author : Clare Bielby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141146
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Violence Elsewhere 1 written by Clare Bielby and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores what postwar German representations of violence in other places and times tell us about Germany. Germany's 20th-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture especially challenging: it has made certain constructions of violence unspeakable, even unthinkable. As a result, new ways of thinking about violence in postwar German culture are needed. One such approach is critical analysis of "violence elsewhere," that is, representations in literature, art, and film of violence in distant, imagined or temporally distinct times and places. Such representations have offered Germans a stage on which to imagine violence. Moreover, German representations of "violence elsewhere" are simultaneously images of Germany itself, revealing something about otherwise submerged or deeply encoded meanings and functions of violence in German culture. This volume explores what representations of "violence elsewhere" tell us about Germany. Its essays consider cultural products that arose from East, West, and reunified Germany and that imagine violence in Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia, the USA, and the Middle East, as well as in the respective "other" German state and in the German past. Drawing on film, literary, gender, cultural, and postcolonial studies as well as visual culture, history, and life writing, they also introduce theoretical perspectives that are transferable beyond German Studies. As such, they allow us to reflect more broadly on relationships between violence, culture, community, and the creation of identities. Edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies. Contributors: Seán Allan, Martin Brady, Evelien Geerts, Katharina Karcher, J.J. Long, Ernest Schonfield, and Katherine Stone. On publication the chapter "Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Hauntological Analysis of the NSU Terror and a Hyper-Exceptionalized "9/11" is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND"--

German Literature in a New Century

Author : Katharina Gerstenberger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458664
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book German Literature in a New Century written by Katharina Gerstenberger and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve "normalization." The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy and argue for a more nuanced picture that considers the ruptures as well as the continuities. Germany's new generation of writers is more diverse than ever before, and their texts often not only speak of a Germany that is multicultural but also take a more playful attitude toward notions of identity. Written with an eye toward similar and dissimilar developments and traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, this volume balances overviews of significant trends in present-day cultural life with illustrative analyses of individual writers and texts.

Distant Kinship

Author : Matthias N. Lorenz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3476058786
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Distant Kinship written by Matthias N. Lorenz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors of the 20th century (including Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Christa Wolf) to the most recent names in literature (i.e. Christian Kracht und Lukas Bärfuss). Beyond the readings of their works, the study contributes to the study of cultural transfers as well as to Conrad philology, and it expands the theory of intertextuality with parameters that capture the complex factor of power in postcolonial relations.