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Cutting-edge application of the insights of Disability Studies to
the German cultural field. Established, commissioned, and edited by
the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
German Yearbook encourages and disseminates lively and open
discussion of themes pertinent to German Studies. No other yearbook
covers the entire field while addressing a focused theme in each
issue. Volume 4 focuses on disability in German literature, film,
and theater. Disability Studies is part of the broader discussion
of difference and "otherness," of the politics of identity, human
rights, ethics, and discrimination. It retrieves disabled figures
from literature, film, and theater and discusses them vis-a-vis
"normalcy." Recently, Disability Studies has explored the binary of
"able" and "disabled," strategies of exclusion, and the
marginalization and suffering of the disabled body under social and
medical structures of control. It is now entering a phase of
positive reflection addressing the ontological politics of
disability. Accordingly, this volume examines cultural
representations of disability that raise questions about "the
humane gaze" and posits disability as historically central to
discussions of humanity, modernity, and social and moral behavior
in German-language literature, film, and theater. Points of focus
include blindness, physical deformity, injury, illness, and
euthanasia. Contributors: Martin Brady, Pauline Eyre, Corinna
Hager, Karin Harrasser, Urte Helduser, Eleoma Joshua, Susanne C.
Knittel, Anna Kornbrodt, Siegfried Saerberg, Rosa Schneider. Eleoma
Joshua is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of
Edinburgh,UK. Michael Schillmeier lectures in the Department of
Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
The influence of foreign cultures on German literature and other
cultural productions since the 18th century. The Edinburgh German
Yearbook is devoted to German Studies in an international context.
It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on
a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each
volumeis based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers
from the highly successful conference Kennst du das Land: Cultural
Exchange in German Literature, held in Edinburgh in December 2006,
supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German
culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a
notorious role in Germany's history. It is nonetheless acknowledged
that German literature has been significantly influenced by
non-German sources, and the search for what is unique about Germany
and German literature must incorporate an awareness of these. This
volume provides a wide-ranging investigation into how German
literature from the 18th century tothe present day reflects
interactions between German and non-German cultures. Alongside
theoretical and historical reflections on the nature of cultural
exchange, contributions explore literary reception, the boundaries
of and movement between cultures, and Germany's literary,
political, cultural, and religious relations with both near
neighbors and far-flung cultural interlocutors. Contributoers:
Christian Moser, Birgit Tautz, Silvia Horsch, Eleoma Joshua, Gauti
Kristmannsson, Sabine Wilke, Daniela Kramer, Jon Hughes, Thomas
Martinec, Margaret Litter, Lyn Marven, Dirk Goettsche, Susanne Kord
Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German at Edinburgh University.
RobertVilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at
Royal Holloway, University of London. The journal's General Editor
is Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at Edinburgh University.
This study examines the life and works of the poet Friedrich
Leopold Graf zu Stolberg(1750-1819). It begins with an analysis of
Stolberg's essays on poetic expression in relation to Romantic
thinking, and the impact of his poetic style on Novalis's early
poetry. Stolberg's aesthetic education in Italy is examined as well
as his challenge to the idea that classical sculpture was always
the pinnacle of beauty and that the culture of antiquity was the
highest form of humanity, The detection of melancholy in Greek
sculpture, which arises from the transfer of anxieties about
redemption from the artist to the artefact, affected his response
and detracted from the beauty of the sculpture. This view amounted
to an attack on Goethe and Schiller, as it identified the issue of
salvation and death as a weakness in the classical paradigm. The
picture of Italy that Stolberg offered was overshadowed by a crisis
of confidence in the aesthetic insights both of Winckelmann and of
Lessing and was also the basis for lib reception of Raphael and
Michelangelo, Stolberg arrived at a response to Renaissance art and
artists that marginally predates the early German Romantic worship
of artists in the 1790s. The book concludes with a discussion of
Stolberg's support of Romantic politics and Romantic conversions.
This study examines the life and works of the poet Friedrich
Leopold Graf zu Stolberg(1750-1819). It begins with an analysis of
Stolberg's essays on poetic expression in relation to Romantic
thinking, and the impact of his poetic style on Novalis's early
poetry. Stolberg's aesthetic education in Italy is examined as well
as his challenge to the idea that classical sculpture was always
the pinnacle of beauty and that the culture of antiquity was the
highest form of humanity, The detection of melancholy in Greek
sculpture, which arises from the transfer of anxieties about
redemption from the artist to the artefact, affected his response
and detracted from the beauty of the sculpture. This view amounted
to an attack on Goethe and Schiller, as it identified the issue of
salvation and death as a weakness in the classical paradigm. The
picture of Italy that Stolberg offered was overshadowed by a crisis
of confidence in the aesthetic insights both of Winckelmann and of
Lessing and was also the basis for lib reception of Raphael and
Michelangelo, Stolberg arrived at a response to Renaissance art and
artists that marginally predates the early German Romantic worship
of artists in the 1790s. The book concludes with a discussion of
Stolberg's support of Romantic politics and Romantic conversions.
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