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Author | : David Jackson |
Publisher | : Campus Verlag |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781571818812 |
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A collection of ten essays written by German scholars investigating the formulation of taboos in literature, and the literary strategies and artistic devices used by German writers to subvert the unspeakable. Of course, homosexuality and sexuality are a major focus of discussion, but the authors also consider political and social issues such as the writing about the Nazi past in work from 1958 to 1967. Some of the authors analyzed in the volume include Goethe, Holderlin, Kafka, and Thomas Mann. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : L. Adelson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2005-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403981868 |
Download The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants between two worlds', this study turns a refreshingly curious eye to complex cultural relations and literary novelties wrought by Turkish migration to Germany. At interpretive and historic crossroads involving dialogue and storytelling, genocide and taboo, and capital and labour in the 1990s. This book illuminates far-reaching imaginative effects that literatures of migration can engender. In critical conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Andreas Huyssen, Dominick LaCapra, Doris Sommer, and many others, Adelson probes history and aesthetics as surprisingly twinned indices of national and global transformation at the millennial turn.
Author | : Matthias Konzett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2015-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113594122X |
Download Encyclopedia of German Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Author | : Gideon Reuveni |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781845450878 |
Download Reading Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By closely examining the interaction between intellectual and material culture in the period before the Nazis came to power in Germany, the author comes to the conclusion that, contrary to widely held assumptions, consumer culture in the Weimar period, far from undermining reading, used reading culture to enhance its goods and values. Reading material was marked as a consumer good, while reading as an activity, raising expectations as it did, influenced consumer culture. Consequently, consumption contributed to the diffusion of reading culture, while at the same time a popular reading culture strengthened consumption and its values. Gideon Reuveni is Director of the Centre for German Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the co-editor of The Economy in Jewish History (Berghahn, 2010) and several other books on different aspects of Jewish history. Presently he is working on a book on consumer culture and the making of Jewish identity in Europe.
Author | : Paul Cooke |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004485619 |
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Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state’s official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the ‘taboo’, i.e. that which is excluded from the state’s official discourse, Hilbig’s characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.
Author | : Lorella Bosco |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527560643 |
Download Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but also established new concepts and methods for revising conventional cultural dichotomies (subject and object, human and animal). The 10 essays collected in this volume are devoted to a wide range of case studies on the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. They display a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a number of texts packed with references to animals, considered not primarily as objects of literature, but as agents endowed with an active role in the production of literature, and which have left repressed or forgotten traces in texts.
Author | : Barry Tomalin |
Publisher | : Kuperard |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers information to travelers on German culture and society, providing a brief history of the country, and covering values and attitudes, customs and traditions, the Germans at home, shopping, business dealings, and other topics.
Author | : John David Pizer |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571135170 |
Download Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature, 1970-2010 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for the first time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture." -- Book cover.
Author | : Stuart Taberner |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441131779 |
Download German Literature in the Age of Globalisation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of culture, politics and society in a more 'normal', united country, German literature has become increasingly diverse and seemingly disparate - at the one extreme, it represents the attempt to 'reinvent' German traditions, at the other, the unmistakable influence of Anglo-American forms and pop literature. A shared concern of almost all of recent German fiction, however, is the contemporary debate on globalisation, its nature, impact and consequences for 'local culture'. In its engagement with globalisation the literature of the Berlin Republic continues the long-established practice of reflection on what it is to be 'German'. This book investigates literary responses to the phenomenon of globalisation. The subject is approached from a wide range of thematic and theoretical perspectives in twelve chapters which, taken together, also provide an overview of German fiction from the mid-1990s to the present. The book serves both as an introduction to contemporary German literature for university students of German and as a resource for scholars interested in culture and society in the Berlin Republic.
Author | : James Henderson Reid |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Writing Without Taboos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book assesses the achievements of East German writers, placing their work in the context of the vicissitudes of cultural politics and East-West relations. It identifies the major themes of East German literature, such as the search for self-realisation, the questioning of official assumptions on the achievements of 'real socialism', and a concern to view the GDR in the framework of its own past as well as that which it shares with its Western neighbour.