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Shakespeare and German Reunification
The Interface of Politics and Performance
Av Emily Oliver
Inbunden, 2017
1225 kr
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This book explores the relationship between politics and Shakespeare performance in East Germany before, during and after reunification in 1990. Analysing a wide range of case studies from Berlin as well as more peripheral towns and cities, the author argues that the capacity for political …
GDR Today
New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture
Av Stephan Ehrig, Marcel Thomas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1110 kr
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The GDR Today promotes interdisciplinary approaches to East Germany by gathering articles from a new generation of scholars in the fields of literary and visual studies, history, sociology, translation studies, political science, museum studies and curating practice. The contributors to this volume …
China im Bild der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1989
Inbunden, 2018
1266 kr
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China als Motiv in der deutschsprachigen Literatur kann auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken. Die Darstellung Chinas in verschiedenen Epochen hängt jedoch nicht selten eng mit dem Zeitgeist und den historischen Gegebenheiten der jeweiligen Epoche zusammen. Die Niederschlagung der …
Reading Colour
George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schueler
Av Rey Conquer
Inbunden, 2019
1108 kr
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Colour is a problem for poetry, where – unlike in painting, sculpture or film – itis marked by its absence. This absence raises questions that have often beenoverlooked in the study of colour: how do writers navigate the invisibility ofcolour in text? What aesthetic commitments do certain attitudes …
German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives
Av Uwe Schütte
Inbunden, 2021
1021 kr
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Pop music is a deeply transmedial art form, a hybrid of images, attitudes, performances and texts. This bilingual volume examines the diverse transmedial processes in which German-language pop music and other forms of art enrich each other. It aims to make an important contribution to the emerging …
Dorfgeschichte
Unterhaltungen mit der Zeit
Inbunden, 2021
914 kr
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Das Buch illustriert die Entwicklung der Dorfgeschichte in den letzten 200 Jahren. Inhaltliche Wandlungen reflektieren geschichtliche Änderungen von Emanzipationsbestrebungen über Nationalismus zu Nostalgie, während die strukturellen Merkmale das Genre der von Robert Prutz definierten definierten …
GDR Tomorrow
Rethinking the East German Legacy
Av Elizabeth Emery, Matthew Hines m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
919 kr
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A unique experiment at the frontlines of the Cold War, the German Democratic Republic collapsed more than thirty years ago. But it did not simply vanish. Far from being a footnote in history, the state and its legacies continue to inform identities, politics, and culture today. Studies of …
Narrative Power of Things
Consumer Culture in Contemporary Austrian Literature
Av Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander, Robert Vilain m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
919 kr
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In the increasingly globalised consumer culture of the twenty-first century, consumer goods have long become more than mere commodities: they are markers of identity and tools of narration. Advertising, branding and other processes of consumer culture are ubiquitous and charge objects with meaning, …
Childness and the Writing of the German Past
Tropes of Childhood in Contemporary German Literature
Av Nora Maguire, Robert Vilain
Inbunden, 2013
950 kr
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This book examines the depiction of childhood and the Nazi German past in post-1989 German literature. Focusing on the work of W.G. Sebald, Marcel Beyer, Martin Walser and Dieter Forte, the study analyses how these authors employ tropes and myths of childhood in their engagements with Germany’s …
Heimat, Loss and Identity
Flight and Expulsion in German Literature from the 1950s to the Present
Av Karina Berger, Robert Vilain
Inbunden, 2014
1009 kr
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What became of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe during the Second World War? In recent years, their suffering, flight and expulsion during and after the war has attracted increasing critical attention. A wave of literary fiction has accompanied this trend, contributing to, and sometimes triggering, …
Critical Time in Modern German Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2016
1167 kr
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The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck as the temporalization («Verzeitlichung») of all areas of human knowledge and experience around 1800, the concept of critical time continues to intrigue researchers across the arts …
New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1206 kr
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This volume brings together contributions arising from papers originally presented at the Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture International Conference held at the University of Nottingham in April 2015. It examines trends in contemporary Austrian literature, film and culture, …
Rethinking Black German Studies
Approaches, Interventions and Histories
Av Tiffany Florvil, Vanessa Plumly
Inbunden, 2018
1109 kr
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Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies. The field’s contextual roots as well as historical backdrop, …
