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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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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.

New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature

Author : Frauke Matthes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031103181
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature written by Frauke Matthes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.

Postmillennial Trends in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media

Author : Soňa Šnircová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527527999
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmillennial Trends in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media by : Soňa Šnircová

Download or read book Postmillennial Trends in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media written by Soňa Šnircová and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a collection of papers that draw on contemporary developments in cultural studies in their discussions of postmillennial trends in works of Anglophone literature and media. The first section of the book, “Addressing the Theories of a New Cultural Paradigm”, comprises ten essays that present, respectively, performatist, metamodernist, digimodernist, and hypomodernist readings of selected texts in order to test the usefulness of recent theories in explorations of the new paradigm in literary, media and food studies. The papers cover a wide variety of genres, including the novel, the film, the documentary, the cookbook, the food magazine, and the food commercial, and present a number of themes which shed light on the nature of the new paradigm. The second part of the volume, “Mapping the Dynamics of a New Sensibility”, offers a wider perspective and presents seven papers that search for evidence of a new sensibility in selected examples of postmillennial texts. These contributions move beyond the frameworks of the theories explored in the first part in order to offer new perspectives in the contributors’ respective fields of interest.

Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature

Author : Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666932523
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature by : Alan L. Berger

Download or read book Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature written by Alan L. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation and that artistic responses to trauma assume a variety of genres, including film, graphic novels, and literature. This generation is acculturated yet set apart from their peers by virtue of their traumatic inheritance. The chapters raise several key questions: How is it possible to negotiate the difference between what Daniel Mendelson terms proximity and distance? How can the post-post-memorial generation both be faithful to Holocaust memory and embrace a message of hope? Can this generation play a constructive educational role? And, finally, why should society care? At a time when the lessons and legacies of Auschwitz are either banalized or under assault, the authors in this volume have a message which ideally should serve to morally center those who live after the event.

Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140220
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature by : Jessica Ortner

Download or read book Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature written by Jessica Ortner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

The Holocaust across Borders

Author : Hilene S. Flanzbaum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793612064
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis The Holocaust across Borders by : Hilene S. Flanzbaum

Download or read book The Holocaust across Borders written by Hilene S. Flanzbaum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, film, or material culture—are shaped by national context, providing a valuable pedagogical source in terms of both content and methodology. As memory yields to post-memory, nation of origin plays a larger role in each re-telling, and the chapters in this book explore this notion covering well-known texts like Night (Hungary), Survival in Auschwitz (Italy), MAUS (United States), This Way to the Gas (Poland), and The Reader (Germany), while also introducing lesser-known representations from countries like Argentina or Australia.

Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture

Author : Dora Osborne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139230
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture by : Dora Osborne

Download or read book Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture written by Dora Osborne and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945.

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.

Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature

Author : German Studies Association. Conference
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139257
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature by : German Studies Association. Conference

Download or read book Transnationalism in Contemporary German-language Literature written by German Studies Association. Conference and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transnationalism" has become a key term in debates in the social sciences and humanities, reflecting concern with today's unprecedented flows of commodities, fashions, ideas, and people across national borders. Forced and unforced mobility, intensified cross-border economic activity due to globalization, and the rise of trans- and supranational organizations are just some of the ways in which we now live both within, across, and beyond national borders. Literature has always been a means of border crossing and transgression-whether by tracing physical movement, reflecting processes of cultural transfer, traveling through space and time, or mapping imaginary realms. It is also becoming more and more a "moving medium" that creates a transnational space by circulating around the world, both reflecting on the reality of transnationalism and participating in it. This volume refines our understanding of transnationalism both as a contemporary reality and as a concept and an analytical tool. Engaging with the work of such writers as Christian Kracht, Ilija Trojanow, Julya Rabinowich, Charlotte Roche, Helene Hegemann, Antje R vic Strubel, Juli Zeh, Friedrich D rrenmatt, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, it builds on the excellent work that has been done in recent years on "minority" writers; German-language literature, globalization, and "world literature"; and gender and sexuality in relation to the "nation." Contributors: Hester Baer, Anke S. Biendarra, Claudia Breger, Katharina Gerstenberger, Elisabeth Herrmann, Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr, Tanja Nusser, Lars Richter, Carrie Smith-Prei, Faye Stewart, Stuart Taberner. Elisabeth Herrmann is Associate Professor of German at Stockholm University. Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German at the University of Alberta. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Leeds and is a Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch; German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

German Narratives of Belonging

Author : Linda Shortt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565699
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book German Narratives of Belonging written by Linda Shortt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post-modern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives of belonging by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Angelika Overath, Florian Illies, Juli Zeh, Stephan Wackwitz, Uwe Timm and Peter Schneider, Shortt examines how the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled by disturbances of lineage and tradition. In this way, she combines an analysis of supermodernity with an enquiry into German memory contests on the National Socialist era, 1968 and 1989 that continue to shape identity in the Berlin Republic. Exploring a spectrum of narratives that range from agitated disavowals of place to romances of belonging, this study illuminates the topography of belonging in contemporary Germany.

Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture

Author : Mary Cosgrove
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135286
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture written by Mary Cosgrove and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on "Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture," volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy in German-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributions explore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. -- From publisher's website.

Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic

Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725037
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic written by John David Pizer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

Author : Lucy Munro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107471435
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674 written by Lucy Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in order to re-embody and reshape the past. Munro brings together scholarly conversations on temporality, memory and historiography, on the relationships between medieval and early modern literary cultures, on the workings of dramatic and poetic style, and on national history and identity. Neither pure anachronism nor pure nostalgia, the attempts of writers to reconstruct outmoded styles within their own works reveal a largely untold story about the workings of literary influence and tradition, the interactions between past and present, and the uncertain contours of English nationhood.

The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition

Author : Catherine Bartlett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435468
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition written by Catherine Bartlett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature

Author : Matthias Eck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000054535
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature written by Matthias Eck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the mental structures of hegemonic masculinity. It argues that while there is evidence of frustrating hegemonic masculinities, contemporary Austrian literature offers few positive images of alternative masculinity. The texts simultaneously criticize and present fantasies of hegemonic masculinity and as such provide a space for ambiguity and evasion. While providing readers with an in-depth study of the works of the authors Daniel Kehlmann, Doron Rabinovici and Arno Geiger, Matthias Eck elaborates the concept of strategic evasion. In order to bridge the gap between the ideal of masculinity and reality the male characters adopt two strategies of evasion: evasion to hide a softer and gentler side, and evasion into a world of fantasy where they pretend to live up to the ideal of hegemonic masculinity.

Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture

Author : Jill E. Twark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135693
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture written by Jill E. Twark and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world.

Authors and the World

Author : Rebecca Braun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501391038
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Authors and the World written by Rebecca Braun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Höllerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja Petrowskaja, and original interview material with contemporary writers Ulrike Draesner, Olga Martynova and Ulrike Almut Sandig. 'Modes of authorship' are attitudes taken towards being an author that can be seen both in what an individual author does and in how a particular literary tradition or trend is perceived and mediated by others both within and beyond Pierre Bourdieu's literary field. Consequently, they deliberately straddle questions of literary production and reception. Rebecca Braun sets out how the commemorative, celebratory, utopian and satirical modes interact with one another to produce a number of models of authorship that carry either foundational or otherwise normative force for society. In varying combinations and with deep roots in 19th- and early 20th-century practices, the four modes of authorship create a remarkably (and at times troublingly) stable German literature network that to a large degree still determines the way contemporary German-speaking authors enact their cultural significance in their writing, engage with their local circumstances, and are more broadly received around the world. Authors and the World provides not just a radically new approach to German literary history but a thoroughly new paradigm for thinking about literary authorship.