Edinburgh German Yearbook 11

Edinburgh German Yearbook 11
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781571139788
ISBN-13 : 1571139788
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Edinburgh German Yearbook 11 by : Helmut Schmitz

New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium. While sociologists have long agreed that the problems of modern and contemporary subjectivity crystallize in the issue of romantic relationships and love (e.g., Luhmann, Illouz, Beck, etc.), the theme of love, so crucial to the foundational text of modern German literature, Goethe's Werther, all but disappeared from German prose literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet over the past fifteen years German-language literature has witnessed an explosion of novels with "Liebe" in their titles as well as novels that centrally focus on intersubjective erotic and emotional relationships. A number of major contemporary writers (Treichel, Walser, Kermani, Ortheil, Maron, Zaimoglu, Genazino) have written Liebesromane or novels in which significant sociohistorical questions are refracted through the love relationships of their protagonists. German film likewise has increasingly thematized love relationships under postromantic conditions, e.g. in the films of the Berlin school. Simultaneously, the development of both feminist and LGBTQ politics over the past decades has exploded the heteronormative discourses ofdesire in a way that has both expanded and enriched the lovers' discourse, while recent developments of urban (hetero)sexuality have expanded the previously available models of expressing erotic relationships in ways that are reminiscent of the utopian ending of Goethe's first version of Stella. The present collection offers a wide-ranging set of essays on these developments. Contributors: Esther K. Bauer, Sven Glawion, Silke Horstkotte, Sarra Kassem, Maria Roca Lizarazu, Helmut Schmitz, Angelika Vybiral. Helmut Schmitz is Reader in German at the University of Warwick. Peter Davies is Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh German Yearbook

Edinburgh German Yearbook
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Publisher : Camden House
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781571134929
ISBN-13 : 1571134921
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Edinburgh German Yearbook by : Laura Bradley

While Bertold Brecht became identified internationally as the cultural figurehead of the GDR, his relationship with the authorities was always complex. This book examines his activities in the GDR and the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy.

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781571139160
ISBN-13 : 1571139168
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic by : Kyle Frackman

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.

Comrades in Arms

Comrades in Arms
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781789205565
ISBN-13 : 1789205565
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Comrades in Arms by : Tom Smith

Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.

Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature

Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781640140240
ISBN-13 : 1640140247
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature by : Ela E. Gezen

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.

Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-language Literature and Culture

Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-language Literature and Culture
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9781571135506
ISBN-13 : 1571135502
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-language Literature and Culture by : Emily Jeremiah

Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films. There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the other"in its various manifestations. And in the German context especially, the past and its representation offer ongoing moral challenges. These ethical concerns have found their way into recent German-language literature andculture in texts that deal with history and memory (Timm, Petzold, Schoch, Strubel); materiality (Krauß, Overath); gender (Berg, Schneider); age and generation (Moster, Pehnt, Schalansky); religion, especially Islam (Senocak, Kermani, Ruete); and nomadism (Tawada). The relationship between self and other; the connection between particular and general; the personal and political consequences of individuals' actions; and the potential, and danger, of representation itself are issues that are vital to the shaping of our future ethical landscapes, as this volume demonstrates. Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Angelika Baier, David N. Coury, Anna Ertel & Tilmann Köppe, Emily Jeremiah, Alasdair King, Frauke Matthes, Aine McMurtry, Gillian Pye, Kate Roy. Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London. Frauke Matthes is Lecturer in German at the University ofEdinburgh.

Rereading East Germany

Rereading East Germany
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781316462393
ISBN-13 : 1316462390
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Rereading East Germany by : Karen Leeder

This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the unification in 1990 and beyond, with in-depth analysis of individual works. A final chapter traces the resonance of the GDR in the years since its demise and analyses the fascination it engenders. The volume provides a 'rereading' of East Germany and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon free from the prejudices that prevailed while it existed, offering English translations throughout, a guide to further reading and a chronology.

Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture

Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781571135698
ISBN-13 : 1571135693
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture by : Jill E. Twark

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.

DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture

DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9783110273458
ISBN-13 : 3110273454
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture by : Marc Silberman

Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity. This volume proposes on the contrary that the GDR cinema was never just a monologue. Rather, its media landscape was characterized by constant dialogue, if not competition, with both the capitalist West and socialist East. These thirteen essays reshape DEFA cinema studies by exploring international networks, identifying lines of influence beyond national boundaries and recognizing genre qualities that surpass the temporal and spatial confines. The international team of film specialists present detailed analyses of over fifty films, including fiction features, adaptations of literary classics, children's films, documentaries, and examples from genres such as music, sci-fi, Westerns and crime films. With contributions by Seán Allan, Hunter Bivens, Benita Blessing, Barton Byg, Jaimey Fisher, Sabine Hake, Nick Hodgin, Manuel Köppen, Anke Pinkert, Larson Powell, Brad Prager, Marc Silberman, Stefan Soldovieri, and Henning Wrage.