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  1. Archaeologies of modernity
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  2. Ecological thought in German literature and culture
    Contributor: Dürbeck, Gabriele (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham

  3. Writing in red
    the East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals
  4. Women and national socialism in postwar German literature
    gender, memory, and subjectivity
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781571139948; 157113994X
    Series: Women and gender in German studies
    Subjects: Deutsch; Roman; Nationalsozialismus <Motiv>; Frau <Motiv>; Geschlechterrolle <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (fast)1900-1999; (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History; (lcsh)National socialism and women; (fast)German literature; (fast)National socialism and women; (fast)History
    Scope: 232 Seiten, 24 cm
  5. Mad Mädchen
    feminism and generational conflict in recent German literature and film
  6. Building socialism
    architecture and urbanism in East German literature, 1955-1973
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY

    Building Socialism' reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It... more

     

    Building Socialism' reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. It breaks new ground by exploring the centrality of architecture to a mid-century modernist literature in dialogue with multiple literary and left-wing theoretical traditions and in tune with international assessments of modernist architecture and urban planning. Design and construction were a central part of politics and everyday life in East Germany during this time as buildings old and new were asked to bear heavy ideological and social burdens. In their novels, stories, and plays, Heiner Müller, Christa Wolf, Günter Kunert, Volker Braun, Günter de Bruyn, and Brigitte Reimann responded to enormous new factory complexes, experimental new towns, the demolition of Berlin's tenements, and the propagation of a pared-down modernist aesthetic in interior design. Writers' representation of the design, construction, and use of architecture formed part of a turn to modernist literary devices, including montage, metaphor, and shifting narrative perspectives. East Germany's literary architecture also represents a sophisticated theoretical reflection on the intractable problems of East Germany's socialist modernity, including the alliance between state socialism and technological modernization, competing commitments to working-class self-organization and the power of specialist planners and designers, and the attempt to create an alternative to fascism

     

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  7. A pedagogy of observation
    nineteenth-century panoramas, German literature, and reading culture
  8. Translating the world
    toward a new history of German literature around 1800
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania

    Zusammenfassung: "A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar"--Provided by publisher

     

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  9. Uncanny encounters
    literature, psychoanalysis, and the end of alterity
  10. Peripheral desires
    the German discovery of sex
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Zusammenfassung: In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical establishment in German-speaking central Europe{u2014}and observes how consistently these writers, thinkers, and scientists associated the new nonnormative sexualities with places away from the German metropoles of Berlin and Vienna. In the writings of Aimée Duc and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Switzerland figured as a place for women in particular to escape the sexual confines of Germany. The sexual ethnologies of Ferdinand Karsch-Haack and the popular novels of Karl May linked nonnormative sexualities with the colonies and, in particular, with German Samoa. Same-sex desire was perhaps the most centrifugal sexuality of all, as so-called Greek love migrated to numerous places and peoples: a curious connection between homosexuality and Hungarian nationalism emerged in the writings of Adalbert Stifter and Karl Maria Kerbeny; Arnold Zweig built on a long and extremely well-developed gradation of associating homosexuality with Jewishness, projecting the entire question of same-sex desire onto the physical territory of Palestine; and Thomas Mann, of course, famously associated male-male desire with the fantastically liminal city of Venice, lying between land and sea, Europe and the Orient. As Germany{u2014}and German-speaking Europe{u2014}became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780812247428; 0812247426
    Series: Haney Foundation series
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Geistesleben; Kultur; Homosexualität; Deutsch; Literatur; Homosexualität, Motiv; Geistesleben; Kultur; Homosexualität; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Other subjects: (fast)1800-1999; (sao)1800-talet; (sao)1900-talet; (lcsh)German literature--19th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)German literature--20th century--History and criticism; (lcsh)Homosexuality in literature; (lcsh)Homosexuality and literature; (lcsh)Homosexuality--Germany--History--19th century; (lcsh)Homosexuality--Germany--History--20th century; (fast)German literature; (fast)Homosexuality; (fast)Homosexuality and literature; (fast)Homosexuality in literature; (sao)Tysk litteratur--historia; (sao)Homosexualitet i litteraturen; (sao)Homosexualitet--historia; (nbc)71.25 sexuality (sociology); (fast)Germany; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc; (fast)History
    Scope: xix, 306 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Preface: Peripheral desires -- Introduction: 1869 : urnings, homosexuals, and inverts -- Chapter 1. Swiss eros : Hössli and Zschokke, legacies and contexts -- Chapter 2. The Greek model and its masculinist appropriation -- Chapter 3. Jews and homosexuals -- Chapter 4. "Homosexuality" and the politics of the nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary -- Chapter 5. Colonialism and sexuality : German perspectives on Samoa -- Chapter 6. Swiss universities : emancipated women and the third sex -- Chapter 7. Thomas Mann's erotic irony : the dialectics of sexuality in Venice -- Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine : sexuality and nationality in Arnold Zweig's De Vriendt kehrt heim -- Conclusion: American legacies of the German discovery of sex

  11. Cosmopolitan parables
    trauma and responsibility in contemporary Germany
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780810135253; 0810135256; 9780810135260; 0810135264
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Weltbürgertum <Motiv>; Melancholie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (fast)2000-2099; (lcsh)German literature--21st century--History and criticism; (lcsh)Cosmopolitanism in literature; (lcsh)Postcolonialism in literature; (fast)Cosmopolitanism in literature; (fast)German literature; (fast)Postcolonialism in literature; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: viii, 240 Seiten, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-233) and index

    Introduction. Toward a new consciousness of the world -- Part I. Entanglements. Divided cosmopolitanisms -- The traumas of unification -- In the whirlwind of melancholy -- Part II. Parables. Columbian zombies, or the ghosts of modernity : Hans Christoph Buch's Speech of dead Columbus on judgment day -- Confessions of a plagiarist : Michael Krüger's Himmelfarb -- Militant melancholy : W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn -- Conclusion. Against the globalization of memory

  12. Erzählweisen der Romandramatisierung
    narratologische Aspekte des Gattungswechsels
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  LIT, Berlin

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  13. Transnationalism in contemporary German-language literature
    Contributor: Herrmann, Elisabeth (Herausgeber); Smith-Prei, Carrie (Mitwirkender); Taberner, Stuart (Mitwirkender)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

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    Contributor: Herrmann, Elisabeth (Herausgeber); Smith-Prei, Carrie (Mitwirkender); Taberner, Stuart (Mitwirkender)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781571139252; 1571139257
    Other identifier:
    9781571139252
    Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
    Subjects: Deutsch; Literatur; Transnationalisierung <Motiv>; Weltbürgertum <Motiv>; Identität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: (fast)2000 - 2099; (lcsh)German literature--21st century--History and criticism--Congresses; (lcsh)Transnationalism in literature--Congresses; (fast)German literature; (fast)Transnationalism in literature; (fast)Conference papers and proceedings; (fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: viii, 284 Seiten, 24 cm
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    "The foundation for this volume was laid at a three-day-long seminar workshop entitled "Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond" that took place at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in Denver, Colorado, October 3-6, 2013. Scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe working in different fields and disciplines came together to debate fundamental questions regarding the form, concerns, and impact of German-language transnational literature today." - Acknowledgments. - Includes bibliographical references and index

  14. Born under Auschwitz
    melancholy traditions in postwar German literature
  15. China in the German enlightenment
    Contributor: Purdy, Daniel L. (Herausgeber); Brandt, Bettina (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and... more

     

    "Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political identity and Europe's own burgeoning global power. China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Hegel, in this development. Beginning with the first English translation of Walter Demel's classic essay "How the Chinese Became Yellow," the collection's essays examine the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory."--(Provided by publisher.)

     

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  16. Inscription and rebellion
    illness and the symptomatic body in East German literature
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

    "The health-care system of the German Democratic Republic reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health of both its citizens and of the metaphorical national body meant to represent and promulgate the nation's political vitality.... more

     

    "The health-care system of the German Democratic Republic reflected the importance the socialist state assigned the health of both its citizens and of the metaphorical national body meant to represent and promulgate the nation's political vitality. Yet many East German literary writers depicted characters ailing and under medical care, and even after the country's dissolution in 1990, writers who had lived there continued to portray sickness and the GDR health-care system prominently in their fiction. This book offers an innovative reading of such texts, employing historical research on the GDR's health-care system and feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy."

     

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  17. Business rhetoric in German novels
    from Buddenbrooks to the global corporation
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Camden House, Rochester, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that requires great linguistic skill. This book is a study of the representation of business practices in nine German-language novels-published during the period from 1901 to 2013-that explore how language is used rhetorically in pursuit of economic and political agendas. Taken up as case studies, in chronological order, the novels are by Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Gabriele Tergit, Bertolt Brecht, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hermann Kant, Friedrich Christian Delius, Kathrin Röggla, and Philipp Schönthaler, all of whom articulate cultural imaginaries and political ideologies at key moments in recent German history. In doing so, they challenge readers to refine their own interpretive skills. By considering business rhetoric in the novels, Ernest Schonfield shows how the formulation of language remains inseparable from the exercise of economic and political power. The central message of this book is that literature and business have something essential in common: they both rely on the persuasive use of language"--(Provided by publisher.)

     

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  18. No Hamlets
    German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    No Hamlets' is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas... more

     

    No Hamlets' is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas Höfele begins with Friedrich Nietzsche and follows the rightist engagement with Shakespeare to the poet Stefan George and his circle, including Ernst Kantorowicz, and the literary efforts of the young Joseph Goebbels during the Weimar Republic, continuing with the Shakespeare debate in the Third Reich and its aftermath in the controversy over 'inner emigration' and concluding with Carl Schmitt's Shakespeare writings of the 1950s. Central to this enquiry is the identification of Germany and, more specifically, German intellectuals with Hamlet. The special relationship of Germany with Shakespeare found highly personal and at the same time highly political expression in this recurring identification, and in its denial. But Hamlet is not the only Shakespearean character with strong appeal: Carl Schmitt's largely still unpublished diaries of the 1920s reveal an obsessive engagement with Othello which has never before been examined. Interest in German philosophy and political thought has increased in recent Shakespeare studies. 'No Hamlets' brings historical depth to this international discussion. Illuminating the constellations that shaped and were shaped by specific appropriations of Shakespeare, Höfele shows how individual engagements with Shakespeare and a whole strand of Shakespeare reception were embedded in German history from the 1870s to the 1950s and eventually 1989, the year of German reunification.

     

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  19. White rebels in Black
    German appropriation of Black popular culture
  20. Imperial fictions
    German literature before and beyond the nation-state
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    Zusammenfassung: "Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire. Unlike nationalist literary historians of the nineteenth century, who sought the tribal roots of an allegedly homogeneous people, this study finds a distant mirror of analogous processes today in the fluid mixtures and movements of peoples. Imperial Fictions argues that it is time to stop thinking about today's multicultural present as a deviation from a culturally monolithic past. We should rather consider the various permutations of "German" identities that have been negotiated within local and imperial contexts from the early Middle Ages to the present"--(Provided by publisher.)

     

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  21. The life of August Wilhelm Schlegel
    cosmopolitan of art and poetry
  22. Figures of natality
    reading the political in the age of Goethe
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, New York

    Zusammenfassung: "Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: "Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment, resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science, or morality. They choose instead to preserve the conflicts and tensions at the heart of social, political, and poetic revolutions. In a historical reading, these tensions evolve from the idea of revolution as Arendt reads it in British North America to the social and economic questions that shape the French Revolution and from there to the question of the German nation. Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth. More pressing still is the question of revolutionary subjectivity and political agency, and Goethe, Kleist, and Schiller have an answer that is remarkably close to that of Walter Benjamin, as that "secret index" through which each past age is "pointed toward redemption." Figures of Natality uncovers this index at the heart of scenes and products of birth in the age of Goethe."--(Provided by publisher.) Zusammenfassung: "Examines the work of Goethe, Kleist, and Schiller in the light of Hannah Arendt's concept of natality"--(Provided by publisher.)

     

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  23. Nazi characters in German propaganda and literature
  24. Fact and fiction
    literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain
    Contributor: Lehleiter, Christine
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; HathiTrust Digital Library, [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] ; JSTOR, New York

    "Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and... more

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