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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines
the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and
cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection
of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European
politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and
cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that
the root of these consorts' power lay in their dynastic networks
and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied
in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig,
Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among
other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The
various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation,
among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries,
theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and
architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of
scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women
to consider 'queens consort' as a category, making it valuable
reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and
political history.
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines
the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and
cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection
of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European
politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and
cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that
the root of these consorts' power lay in their dynastic networks
and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied
in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig,
Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among
other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The
various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation,
among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries,
theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and
architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of
scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women
to consider 'queens consort' as a category, making it valuable
reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and
political history.
New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made
famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces
that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character. The
Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into distinct
disciplines today, interacted and clashed intimately in Faust, the
great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous
1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original Faust behind
Goethe's great drama embodies a remote culture. In his century,
Faust evolved from an obscure cipher to a universal symbol. The age
explored here as "the Faustian century" invested the Faustbuch and
its theme with a symbolic significance still of exceptional
relevance today. The new essays in this volume complement one
another, providing insights into the tensions and forces that gave
the century its distinctcharacter. Several essays seek Faust's
prototypes. Others elaborate the symbolic function of his figure
and discern the resonance of his tale in conflicting allegiances.
This volume focuses on the intersection of historical accounts and
literary imaginings, on shared aspects of the work and its times,
on concerns with obedience and transgression, obsessions with the
devil and curiosity about magic, and quandaries created by shifting
religious and worldlyauthorities. Contributors: Marguerite de
Huszar Allen, Kresten Thue Andersen, Frank Baron, Gunther Bonheim,
Albrecht Classen, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Karl S. Guthke, Michael
Keefer, Paul Ernst Meyer, J. M. van der Laan, Helen
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Andrew Weeks. J. M. van der Laan is Professor of
German and Andrew Weeks is Professor of German and Comparative
Literature, both at Illinois State University.
Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether
and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture,
women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are
traditionally constructed as an unknowable "other." The first two
Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the
feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing,
respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers
and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who
kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercisefascination even as
they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the
first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What happens
when it is women who produce the representations? Do they debunk or
reject the dominant discourses of sexual fascination around women
and death? Do they replace them with more sober or "realistic"
representations, with new forms, modes, and language? Or do women
writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal tradition,
reproduce its paradigms? This third volume in the series
investigates these questions in ten essays written by an
international group of expert scholars. It will be of interest to
scholars and students of German literature and culture, gender
studies, and film studies. Contributors: Judith Aikin, Barbara
Becker-Cantarino, Jill Bepler, Stephanie Bird, Abigail Dunn,
Stephanie Hilger, Elisabeth Krimmer, Aine McMurtry, Simon Richter,
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German at the
University of Hull. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck
College, University of London.
Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike
and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries.
Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and
culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this
volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany
analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts,
society, media, and scholarship, always against the backdrop of
Germany's development as a culture and as a nation. The
contributors look for patterns in the historical portrayal of
warlike women, askingthe questions: What cultural signals are sent
when women are shown occupying men's spaces by dressing as warriors
or in men's clothing? What can legitimize the woman who bears arms?
From what is the erotic potential of images linking women and
violence derived? Have recent feminist thought and political
developments changed representations of warlike women?
Contributors: Bettina Brandt, Sarah Colvin, Mererid Puw Davies,
Peter Davies, ChristineEifler, Ute Frevert, Kathrin
Hoffmann-Curtius, Ritchie Robertson, Daria Santini, Ruth Seifert,
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Sarah Colvin is Eudo C. Mason Chair of
German at the University of Edinburgh. Helen Watanabe-O'Kellyis
Professor of German at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor of
Exeter College, Oxford.
The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed
emperors, from Franz I of Austria and Napoleon I in 1804, through
Agustin of Mexico, Pedro I of Brazil, Napoleon III of France,
Maximilian of Mexico, and Wilhelm I of Germany, to Victoria,
empress of India, in 1876. These monarchs projected an imperial
aura through coronations, courts, medals, costumes, portraits,
monuments, international exhibitions, festivals, religion,
architecture, and town planning. They relied on ancient history for
legitimacy while partially espousing modernity. Projecting Imperial
Power is the first book to consider together these newly proclaimed
emperors in six territories on three continents across the whole of
the long nineteenth century. The first emperors' successors-Pedro
II of Brazil, Franz Joseph of Austria, and Wilhelm II of
Germany-expanded their panoply of power, until Pedro was forced to
abdicate in 1889 and the First World War brought the Austrian and
German empires to an end. Britain invented an imperial myth for its
Indian empire in the twentieth century, but George VI still had to
relinquish the title of emperor in 1947. Using a wide range of
sources, Projecting Imperial Power explains the imperial ambition
behind the cities of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and New Delhi. It
discusses the contested place of the emperors and their empires in
national cultural memory by examining how the statues that were
erected in huge numbers in the second part of the period are
treated today.
Three-volume set investigating how iconic representations of women
and death in German literature and culture came about and why they
endure. The theme of women and death is pervasive in the German
culture of the past five centuries. With the conviction that only
an interdisciplinary approach can explore a typology as
far-reaching and significant as this, and in accordance with the
feminist tenet that images are accountable for norms, the three
volumes in this set, all of which are based on the Oxford-based
research project Representations of Women and Death in German
Literature, Art, and Mediaafter 1500, investigate how iconic
representations of women and death came about and why they endure.
In the first volume, familiar depictions of female victims of
violence and murder are examined alongside the more unsettling
spectacle of women as killers, exposing cultural assumptions. The
second volume analyzes representations of warlike women - Amazons,
terrorists, and warrior women - in the visual arts, society, media,
and scholarship against the backdrop of Germany's development as a
culture and as a nation. And the third volume asks what happens
when it is women who produce the representations of women and
death? Do they replace the patriarchal representations with more
sober or "realistic" ones, with new forms, modes, and language? Or
do women writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal
tradition, reproduce its paradigms?
A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of
German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and
in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of
figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer
Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures
who leave their proper female sphere and have to be made safe by
being killed, deflowered, or both. This has produced some
compelling works of Western culture - Cranach's and Klimt's
paintings of Judith, Schiller's Joan of Arc, Hebbel's Judith,
Wagner's Brunnhilde, Fritz Lang's Brunhild. Nowadays,
representations of the woman warrior are used as a way of thinking
about the woman terrorist. Women writers only engage with these
imaginings at the end of the 19th century, but from the late 18th
century on they begin to imagine fictional cross-dressers going to
war in a realistic setting and thus think the unthinkable. What are
the roots of these imaginings? And how are they related to Freud's
ideas about women's sexuality?
This is the first book to provide a complete German literary history up to the Unification of Germany in 1990. It is a history for our times: well-known authors and movements are set in a wider literary, cultural and political context, standard judgments are reexamined where appropriate, and a new prominence is given to writing by women. The book is designed for the general reader as well as the advanced student; titles and quotations are translated, and there is an extensive bibliography.
Mit diesem Band erscheint die erste umfassende und kritische
Auseinandersetzung mit dem veroeffentlichten Werk von Eva
Strittmatter (1930-2011), populare Dichterin und Briefautorin in
der ehemaligen DDR. Er zeigt auf, wie wichtig die Position
Strittmatters als Lyrikerin zu nehmen ist, insbesondere da ihr Werk
von einer umfassenden theoretischen Struktur untermauert ist. Ihre
Gedichte zeichnen sich aus durch eine durchdachte Prosodie und
einen vielschichtigen Aufbau; das oeffnet ihnen den Zugang zu einer
Vielfalt von Lesern. Beginnend mit einer Betrachtung von
Strittmatters Prosaschriften, zeigt die Studie die Entwicklung Eva
Strittmatters als Dichterin und die zunehmend theoretische
Fundierung ihrer Texte auf. Hauptpunkte, die in diesem Band
angesprochen werden, sind die Metapoetik und linguistische Aspekte,
die Emanzipation durch Sprache - von der Sklavensprache zur
Sprachfahigkeit -, Naturlyrik und Intertextualitat. Diese Studie
stellt die bisherige Annahme, dass es sich bei Eva Strittmatter um
eine ostdeutsche Dichterin von minderer Signifikanz handelt, in
Frage und demonstriert, dass ihr ein Platz in der ersten Reihe der
grossen deutschen Dichterinnen gebuhrt.
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