Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies – serie
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W. G. Sebald
History - Memory - Trauma
Av Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh
Inbunden, 2006
1962 kr
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The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 – 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century (“Die Ausgewanderten”, “Austerlitz”, “Luftkrieg und Literatur”). His writing is marked by a unique ‘hybridity’ that combines characteristics of travelogue, …
Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945
(Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture
Av Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner
Inbunden, 2006
2452 kr
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This volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discourse on 1933 – 1945. An interdisplicinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social …
Sites of the Uncanny
Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts
Inbunden, 2007
2452 kr
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Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts is the first book-length study that examines Celan's impact on visual culture. Exploring poetry's relation to film, painting and architecture, this study tracks the transformation of Celan in postwar German culture and shows the …
Memory Matters
Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature
Inbunden, 2008
1919 kr
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Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Klüger), a daughter of Jewish émigrés (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew …
Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes in the Life of the Body Politic
Literature and Philosophy around 1800
Inbunden, 2009
2729 kr
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Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the abstraction of the bearer of rights in Enlightenment thought by exploring contradictions between reproductive labor and political representation in the ideal of democratic …
"Sinn und Form"
The Anatomy of a Literary Journal
Av Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts
Inbunden, 2009
2934 kr
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This study of the legendary Berlin literary and cultural journal Sinn und Form (1949- ) has a twofold significance. Based on extensive archival research and a detailed reading of the journal’s published face, it is a comprehensive history of „Sinn und Form“, whose founding editor was Peter Huchel …
Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity
Johann Jakob Bachofen in German Culture. 1860–1945
Av Peter Davies
Inbunden, 2010
1791 kr
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This study explores the prevalence in German culture of myths about ancient matriarchal societies, discussing their presence in left and right wing politics, feminist and antifeminist writing, sociology, psychoanalysis and literary production. By tracing the influence of the works of the Swiss …
When Machines Play Chopin
Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Inbunden, 2010
2149 kr
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When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display …
Complicity, Censorship and Criticism
Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere
Av Sara Jones
Inbunden, 2011
2542 kr
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This study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on …
Happy Burden of History
From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood
Av Andrew S. Bergerson, K. Scott Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2266 kr
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Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize …
Rethinking Emotion
Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought
Inbunden, 2014
1962 kr
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What are emotions, where do they originate and how are they brought into being? While from antiquity to early modernity, affects or passions were mostly conceived of as external physiological forces which act upon a passive subject, modern conceptions generally locate emotions within the subject. …
Germans Going Global
Contemporary Literature and Cultural Globalization
Inbunden, 2012
1765 kr
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Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has …
Visualizing the Past
The Power of the Image in German Historicism
Inbunden, 2013
1660 kr
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Visual media had a decisive impact on how the past was perceived in historicist culture in nineteenth-century Germany. The panorama, photography, and book illustrations can portray the past under the auspices of spatiality. Research on historicist culture often neglects this dimension of space and …
Max Pechstein: the Rise and Fall of Expressionism
Inbunden, 2012
2757 kr
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Max Pechstein ( 88 – 955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an …
W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics
Literature as Historiography
Inbunden, 2014
1463 kr
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This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, …
Revolutionary Subjects
German Literatures and the Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity with Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
1900 kr
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Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for …
German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives
Av Carola Daffner, Beth A. Muellner
Inbunden, 2015
1900 kr
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In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in …
KulturConfusão – On German-Brazilian Interculturalities
Av Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1612 kr
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The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and literary and cultural studies. This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present …
Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850
Av Mary Helen Dupree, Sean B. Franzel
Inbunden, 2015
1962 kr
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The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, went hand in hand with in new ways of viewing, sensing, and …
Kafka and the Universal
Inbunden, 2016
1962 kr
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Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox …
Musical Biographies
The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature
Inbunden, 2016
1569 kr
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Since the second half of the twentieth century various routes, including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness to and reverberate with traumatic …
Happy Burden of History
From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood
Av Andrew S. Bergerson, K. Scott Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize …
Germans Going Global
Contemporary Literature and Cultural Globalization
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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Germans Going Global is the first monograph in English to address in depth the interrelatedness between contemporary German literature and globalization. In an interdisciplinary framework and through detailed readings of a wide variety of texts, the study shows how the challenges globalization has …
W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics
Literature as Historiography
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, …
Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense
Alexander Kluge's 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form
Inbunden, 2017
1185 kr
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Alexander Kluge’s revolutionary storytelling for the 21st-century pivots on the production of anti-realist hope under conditions of real catastrophe. Rather than relying on possibility alone, his experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally …
Proletarian Dream
Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933
Av Sabine Hake
Inbunden, 2017
1765 kr
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The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also …
Revolutionary Subjects
German Literatures and the Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity with Latin America
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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Revolutionary Subjects explores the literary and cultural significance of Cold War solidarities and offers insight into a substantial and under-analyzed body of German literature concerned with Latin American thought and action. It shows how literary interest in Latin America was vital for …
Women Writing War
From German Colonialism through World War I
Av Katharina von Hammerstein, Barbara Kosta m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1712 kr
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Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the …
Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner as Music Critics
Inbunden, 2024
1493 kr
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The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that …
Kafka and the Universal
Häftad, 2018
360 kr
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Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox …
