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Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-a-vis an
eastern "Other" in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World
War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and
question Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Germany has
long defined itself in opposition to its eastern neighbors: its
ideas around cultural prestige and its expressions of xenophobia
seem inevitably to return to an imagined eastern "Other." Central
to the consideration of such projections is the legacy of the
Second World War, the subject of fresh debate since 1989: after
four decades of political antagonism and cultural disjuncture, the
events of the war on the Eastern Front have been rediscovered by
Western audiences and have come to occupy complex, shifting
positions in the memory culture of the postsocialist states.
However, German ignorance of Eastern European experiences of war
and genocide, enduring stereotypes, and prescriptive ideas about
remembrance have been major stumbling blocks to the emergence of a
transnational memory culture considered just by all parties.
Despite mass immigration to Germany from the east and intensive
contact between German speakers and its cultures, German-language
cultural production continues largely to represent Eastern Europe
as unknown, wild, and inaccessible. By contrast, the writers and
filmmakers under discussion in the present volume have worked with
and against such tropes to put forward alternative perspectives.
Like their works, the contributions to this volume place the
conflicts and prejudices of the twentieth century into a wider
historical perspective, exposing and questioning the nature of
Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Contributors:
Deirdre Byrnes, Raluca Cernahoschi, Shivani Chauhan, Eniko Dacz,
Olha Flachs, Daniel Harvey, Jakub Kazecki, Amy Leech, Paul Peters,
Ernest Schonfield, Karolina Watroba.
Doeblin's texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses,
are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific
modernity. With their use of 'Tatsachenphantasie', they explode
conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of
objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the
uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Doeblin's interdiscursive,
factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives
on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Doeblin's
best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including
his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical
texts. Other topics addressed are Doeblin's engagement with German
history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of
Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation
to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With
contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and
the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Doeblin that
are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.
A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses
of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of
its publication and reception. The late nineteenth century was a
crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political
unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a
mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings ofthe
German bestseller.Offering escape, romance, or adventure, as well
as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers
often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth
century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars.
This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not
on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful
fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates
bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe,
Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Moellhausen, Marlitt, Suttner,
and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies
that made the works sucha success, and writers' attempts to appeal
simultaneously on different levels to different readers.
Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of
publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense
ofartistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important
effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works,
but of German prose fiction on all levels. Contributors: Christiane
Arndt, Caroline Bland, Elizabeth Boa, Anita Bunyan, Katrin Kohl,
Todd Kontje, Peter C. Pfeiffer, Nicholas Saul, Benedict Schofield,
Ernest Schonfield, Martin Swales, Charlotte Woodford. Charlotte
Woodford is Lecturer in German and Directorof Studies in Modern
Languages at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Benedict
Schofield is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department
of German at King's College London.
Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature
and business have in common a reliance on language, understood in a
creative, performative, and rhetorical sense. 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 Roeggla, and Philipp
Schoenthaler, 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. Ernest Schonfield is Lecturer in German at the
University of Glasgow.
This book examines the continuing relevance of Buchner in the early
twenty-first century, in terms of politics, science, philosophy,
aesthetics, performance and cultural studies, uniquely combining
close readings with wide-ranging cultural, theatrical,
philosophical and theoretical contextualizations. Der Band
beschaftigt sich mit Buchners anhaltender Aktualitat in den
verschiedensten Bereichen. Er zeichnet sich durch detailliert
textbezogene Interpretationen aus, die gleichzeitig zahlreiche
aktuelle kultur- und theaterwissenschaftliche, philosophische,
naturwissenschaftliche, asthetische und theoretische Themen
ansprechen.
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