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Case of Christian Kracht
Authorship, Irony, and Globalism
Inbunden, 2024
1860 kr
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The bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht is as widely celebrated as he is a source of controversy. This introduction to his work suggests locating his writings in discourses that range beyond the labels that have been traditionally assigned to them, namely “postmodernism,” camp,” …
German Reunification and the Legacy of GDR Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2018
2115 kr
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Since the tumultuous events of 1989/1990, writers, cultural practitioners and academics have responded to, reconstructed and reflected upon the process and enduring impact of German reunification. This bilingual volume provides a nuanced understanding of the literature and culture of the GDR and …
Anna Seghers
The Challenge of History
Inbunden, 2019
2447 kr
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Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address …
Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic
Av Chris Weedon
Inbunden, 2023
2008 kr
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More than thirty years after German reunification, Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic addresses how life in the GDR is remembered, thereby enriching and complexifying the narratives of East German life found in public history, museums, tourist venues, film, media and popular fiction. …
Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Kunstszene gegen rechte Szene
Av Joseph Twist
Inbunden, 2024
1731 kr
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Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, …
Kerstin Hensel
Literary Correspondences
Av Astrid Köhler, Ernest Schonfield
Inbunden, 2025
2082 kr
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Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique literary voice owes as much to her character, background and biography as it does to its dialogic openness to other voices. This is the first book to examine in detail Hensel’s …
Volker Braun in Perspective
Av Rolf Jucker
Häftad, 2004
901 kr
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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 …
Fractured Biographies
Av Ian Wallace
Häftad, 2003
773 kr
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A physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies (John Hennig) and a Celtic philologist (Julius Pokorny) are the focus of this volume. What they have in …
Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words
Approaches to her Fiction, Poetry and Essays
Av Heike Bartel
Häftad, 2003
587 kr
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Anne Duden’s reputation as one of the most innovative writers of her generation, established in 1982 with the experimental stories in Übergang, was confirmed in 1985 by Das Judasschaf, a novel interweaving an individual’s anguish with the cultural trauma of the German past. In her acclaimed poem …
Monika Maron in Perspective
‘Dialogische’ Einblicke in zeitgeschichtliche, intertextuelle und rezeptionsbezogene Aspekte ihres Werkes
Av Elke Gilson
Häftad, 2002
901 kr
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In diesem Band werden zum ersten Mal die Ansichten von 12 Forschern zum Œuvre der Berliner Autorin Monika Maron (1941) zusammengebracht. Die Beiträge entstanden im Rahmen eines internationalen Symposiums anlässlich des 60. Geburtstages der Autorin, das Ende März 2001 an der Universität Gent …
Entgegenkommen
Dialogues with Barbara Köhler
Inbunden, 2000
2370 kr
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This volume presents the first collection of critical essays on the work of the contemporary poet Barbara Köhler (b.1959). Köhler's first collection Deutsches Roulette attracted wide critical acclaim on its publication in 1991, when its poetic articulation of a last days' consciousness of the …
Jews in German Literature since 1945
German-Jewish Literature?
Häftad, 2000
1630 kr
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This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in seventeen different countries. Holocaust literature is just one theme in this context; others are …
Christoph Hein in Perspective
Häftad, 2000
616 kr
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Unlike many writers from the former GDR, Christoph Hein's reputation and standing - and his creativity - have remained intact despite the demise of the GDR in 1989-90. Christoph Hein in Perspective brings together essays by both established and younger scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA …
German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945
Inbunden, 2006
1418 kr
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German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 is a pioneering study of the impact the German-speaking exiles of the Hitler years had on Ireland as the first large group of immigrants in the country in the twentieth century. It therefore adds an important yet hitherto virtually unknown Irish dimension …
Pushing at Boundaries
Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck
Av Heike Bartel
Häftad, 2006
987 kr
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Pushing at Boundaries presents approaches to women writers who have recently had a big impact in shaping the contemporary literary field in Germany. The opening chapters offer the first extensive consideration of Karen Duve’s work, including an excerpt from her latest novel, the romance parody Die …
Un-Civilizing Processes?
Excess and Transgression in German Society and Culture: Perspectives Debating with Norbert Elias
Inbunden, 2007
1692 kr
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The collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of …
Schaltstelle
Neue deutsche Lyrik im Dialog
Inbunden, 2007
3725 kr
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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 …
Baader-Meinhof Returns
History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism
Inbunden, 2008
1900 kr
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This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered.The cultural memory of the RAF …
Dislocation and Reorientation
Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics
Inbunden, 2009
2044 kr
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Dislocation and the need for radical reorientation are central experiences in 20th-century German history. Much of German culture has also consisted of reflections on and responses to the historical caesurae of 1933, 1945 and 1989-90, and the massive political, social and economic changes that …
Narratives of Trauma
Discourses of German Wartime Suffering in National and International Perspective
Häftad, 2011
1401 kr
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Over the last decade German culture has been engaged in a re-examination of the traumatic events of the Second World War and their post-war legacy in the public and private sphere. This shift in German memory culture from a focus on responsibility for the Holocaust to a focus on wartime suffering …
Art Outside the Lines
New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture
Av Elaine Kelly
Häftad, 2011
1758 kr
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This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the …
Self in Transition
East German Autobiographical Writing Before and After Unification. Essays in Honour of Dennis Tate
Av David Clarke
Inbunden, 2012
1842 kr
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Taking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in …
Transitions
Emerging Women Writers in German-language Literature
Inbunden, 2013
1501 kr
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This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united …
German Text Crimes
Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s
Av Tom Cheesman
Inbunden, 2013
1572 kr
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German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth …
