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Blackadder - Season 1 (DVD)
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerney, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, …
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The entire first series of the historical sitcom, created by Rowan
Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. Atkinson plays the scheming
member of a 15th century royal court, with Tony Robinson as his
witless sidekick Baldrick. The episodes are 'The Foretelling',
'Born to Be King', 'The Archbishop', 'The Queen of Spain's Beard',
'Witchsmeller Pursuivant' and 'The Black Seal'.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
A collection of essays offering a nuanced understanding of the
complex question of identity in today's Germany. This collection of
fifteen essays by scholars from the UK, the US, Germany, and
Scandinavia revisits the question of German identity. Unlike
previous books on this topic, however, the focus is not exclusively
on national identityin the aftermath of Hitler. Instead, the
concentration is upon the plurality of ethnic, sexual, political,
geographical, and cultural identities in modern Germany, and on
their often fragmentary nature as the country struggles with the
challenges of unification and international developments such as
globalization, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. The
multifaceted nature of German identity demands a variety of
approaches: thus the essays are interdisciplinary, drawing upon
historical, sociological, and literary sources. They are organized
with reference to three distinct sections: Berlin, Political
Formations, and Difference; yet at the same time they illuminate
one another across the volume, offering a nuanced understanding of
the complex question of identity in today's Germany. Topics include
the new self-understanding of the Berlin Republic, Berlin as a
public showcase, the Berlin architecture debate,the Walser-Bubis
debate, fictions of German history and the end of the GDR, the
impact of the German student movement on the FRG, Prime Minister
Biedenkopf and the myth of Saxon identity, women in post-1989
Germany, trains as symbols and the function of the foreign in
post-1989 fiction, identity construction among Turks in Germany and
Turkish self-representation in post-1989 fiction, the state of
German literature today. Contributors: Frank Brunssen, Ulrike
Zitzlsperger, Janet Stewart, Kathrin Schoedel, Karen Leeder, Ingo
Cornils, Peter Thompson, Chris Szejnmann, Sabine Lang, Simon Ward,
Roswitha Skare, Eva Kolinsky, Margaret Littler, Katharina
Gerstenberger, and Stuart Parkes. Stuart Taberner is Lecturer in
German, and Frank Finlay is Professor of German and Head of the
Department of German, both at the University of Leeds, UK.
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