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Primarily celebrated for his dramatic works Minna von Barnhelm,
Emilia Galotti and Nathan der Weise, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's
diverse pursuits extended far beyond the stage. From incisive
journalism to innovative reflections on poetry, aesthetics and
theology, his wide-ranging intellectual interests place him firmly
alongside contemporary polymaths such as Diderot. In this extensive
study an international team of experts explores Lessing's
contribution to both the German and broader European Enlightenments
to reveal: the energy and acuity of his critical writing, which
made him an exemplar for subsequent German authors; the originality
and lasting significance of Laocoon, his groundbreaking treatise on
aesthetics, which distinguished the domains of poetry and the
visual arts, and is still a major point of reference; how his
reflections on theology and the Bible helped shape a view of
Christianity as a historical phenomenon without absolute truth; how
his Enlightenment curiosity and open-mindedness were nourished by
an interest in natural science, particularly astronomy; how
activities such as his adaptation of English domestic tragedy and
his translations of Diderot's theatrical writings placed him at the
heart of the pan- European Enlightenment.
New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to
history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian
literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil,
Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others
feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is
desirable to see how the Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian
society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys
Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates
them to the distinctive history of modern Austria,a democratic
republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule,
absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state;
and examines their response to controversial events such as the
collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider
and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in
the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume
examines popular culture in line with current trends. Contributors:
Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony
Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph
McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler. Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a
Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor
of German and a Fellow of The Queen's College, both at the
University of Oxford.
New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern
writers, Franz Kafka. No other 20th-century writer of
German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the
canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly,
enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues
to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in
turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear:
although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one
key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a
strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka
research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this
volume. Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H.
Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry
Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard
T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark
Harman James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke
University.
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers
in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the
German Enlightenment. German literature and thought flourished in
the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European
backwater came to assert worldwide significance. This was an age in
which repeated attempts to reform German literary and philosophical
culture were made - often only to be overtaken within a few
decades. It ushered in generations of exceptionally gifted poets
and thinkers including Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Kant, and
Schiller, whose names still dominate our understanding of the
German Enlightenment. Yet the period also brought with it new means
of accessing and disseminating culture and a rapid increase in
cultural production. The leading lights of eighteenth-century
German culture operated against the backdrop of a yet more diverse
and vivid cast of literary and philosophical figures since
consigned to the second tier of German culture. Through essays that
examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider
cultural context, this collection repopulates the German
Enlightenment with these largely forgotten movements, writers, and
literary circles. It offers new insights into the development of
genres such as thenovel, the fable, and the historical drama, and
assesses the dynamics that led to individual authors, circles, and
schools of thought being left behind in their time and passed over
or inadequately understood to this day. Contributors: Johannes
Birgfeld, Stephanie Blum, Julia Bohnengel, Kristin Eichhorn, Sarah
Vandegrift Eldridge, Jonathan Blake Fine, J. C. Lees, Leonard von
Morze, Ellen Pilsworth, Joanna Raisbeck, Ritchie Robertson, Michael
Wood. Michael Wood is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in German
at the University of Edinburgh. Johannes Birgfeld teaches Modern
German Literature at the University of the Saarland.
Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction and the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.
Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction and the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.
New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a
harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George
(1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria
Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the twentieth century.
He also had an important, albeit controversial and provocative role
in German cultural history. It is generally agreed that he played a
significant part in the transition of German literature to
Modernism, particularly in poetry. At the same time he was an
outspoken critic of modernity. He believed that only
anall-encompassing cultural renewal could save modern man. Although
George is often linked with the l'art pour l'art movement, and
although his artistic consciousness was formed by European
aestheticism, his poetry and the writings that emerged from the
poets and intellectuals he gathered around him in the George Circle
are above all a scathing commentary on the political, social, and
cultural situation in Germany at the turn of the century. George,
who was imbued with the idea of the poet as a prophet and priest,
saw himself as the Messiah of a New Hellenism and a New Reich led
by an intellectual and aesthetic elite consisting of men who were
bonded together through their allegiance to a charismatic leader.
Some of the values that George proclaimed, among them a
glorification of power, of heroism and self-sacrifice, were seized
upon by the National Socialists, and subsequently his writings
andthose of his circle were considered by some to be proto-fascist.
It did not help his reputation that after the Second World War much
of the criticism of his works was practiced by uncritical,
hagiographic George worshippers. In recent years, however, there
has been a renewed and unbiased interest among scholars and critics
in George and his circle. The wide-ranging and original essays in
this volume explore anew George's poetry and his contribution to
Modernism, the relation between his vision of a New Reich and
fascist ideology, and his importance as a cultural critic. Jens
Rieckmann is Professor of German at the University of California,
Irvine.
It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature:
"When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found
himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin." So begins
Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis. Kafka considered
publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to
be called Punishments. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power
struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony
examines questions of power, justice, punishment, and the meaning
of pain in a colonial setting. These three stories are flanked by
two very different works. Meditation, the first book Kafka
published, consists of light, whimsical, often poignant
mood-pictures, while the autobiographical Letter to his Father
analyzes his difficult relationship with his father in devastating
detail. This new translation by Joyce Crick pays particular
attention to the nuances of Kafka's style, and the Introduction and
notes by Ritchie Robertson provide guidance to this most enigmatic
and rewarding of writers. There is also a Biographical Preface, an
up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to
history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian
literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil,
Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others
feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is
desirable to see how the Austrian literary scene -- and Austrian
society itself -- shaped their writing. This volume thus surveys
Austrian writers of drama, prose fiction, and lyric poetry; relates
them to the distinctive history of modern Austria,a democratic
republic that was overtaken by civil war and authoritarian rule,
absorbed into Nazi Germany, and re-established as a neutral state;
and examines their response to controversial events such as the
collusion with Nazism, the Waldheim affair, and the rise of Haider
and the extreme right. In addition to confronting controversy in
the relations between literature, history, and politics, the volume
examines popular culture in line with current trends. Contributors:
Judith Beniston, Janet Stewart, Andrew Barker, Murray Hall, Anthony
Bushell, Dagmar Lorenz, Juliane Vogel, Jonathan Long, Joseph
McVeigh, Allyson Fiddler. Katrin Kohl is Lecturer in German and a
Fellow of Jesus College, and Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor
of German Language and Literature and a Fellow of The Queen's
College, both at the University of Oxford.
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The Trial (Paperback)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Mike Mitchell; Edited by Ritchie Robertson
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'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one
morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A
successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself
under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The
mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly
co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this
ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its
psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without
escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see?
Kafka's unfinished novel has been read as a study of political
power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the
accused man is himself the problem. One of the iconic figures of
modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of
guilt, responsibility, and freedom; he offers no solutions, but
provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own. This new
edition includes the fragmentary chapters that were omitted from
the main text, in a translation that is both natural and exact, and
an introduction that illuminates the novel and its author. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie
Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the
context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche’s development from
outstanding classical scholar to cultural critic, who measured
Imperial Germany by the standards of ancient Greece. It follows him
thence to prophet (in the persona of Zarathustra) and savage
polemicist against modern liberal values, offering a ‘philosophy
of the future’. Robertson argues that Nietzsche’s middle-period
writings offer a subtle and searching analysis of his culture, more
rewarding than the strident and often-controversial later works.
The book also assesses Nietzsche’s claim to be continuing the
Enlightenment, and shows that he valued reason, evidence and fact,
without which his historical case against Christianity would make
no sense.
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German
Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work,
puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the
supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of
these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings
at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The
Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and
posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which
Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud
examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate
fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late
story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the
imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a
transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to
Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the
stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores
their compelling narrative complexities. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A
Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four
Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in
this edition, which also contains other uncollected stories and a
selection of posthumously published works that have become part of
the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous,
these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing
mouse, an ape, an inquisitive dog, and a paranoid burrowing
creature are among the protagonists, as well as the professional
hunger artist. The tales are among Kafka's best-known, haunting and
compelling satires on the human condition, on art and artists, and
on life itself, which complement his major fictions. Translated by
the award-winning Joyce Crick, the book includes an invaluable
introduction, notes, and other editorial material by renowned Kafka
scholar Ritchie Robertson. There is also a Biographical Preface, an
up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life. This
volume completes an Oxford World's Classics set of five Kafka
works, in distinctive complementary cover designs.
About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have'
Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods
of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it
remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of
modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom
of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning,
and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the
Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which
ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates
shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called
technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?'
Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to
use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of
the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of
humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility.
His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to
return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought
to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific
inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received
opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied
hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority
traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in
'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of
modern times.
One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations
of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species,
revolutionized our understanding of human nature. Now this
groundbreaking new translation--the first to be based on the
original text published in November 1899--brings us a more
readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's
masterpiece.
The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter
than its subsequent editions; each time the text was reissued, from
1909 onwards, Freud added to it. The most significant, and in many
ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to
the kind of mechanical reading of dream symbolism--long objects
equal male genitalia, etc.--that has gained popular currency and
partially obscured Freud's more profound insights into dreams. In
the original version presented here, Freud's emphasis falls more
clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of
deciphering them. Without the strata of later additions, readers
will find here a clearer development of Freud's central ideas--of
dream as wish-fulfillment, of the dream's manifest and latent
content, of the retelling of dreams as a continuation of the
dreamwork, and much more. Joyce Crick's translation is lighter and
faster-moving than previous versions, enhancing the sense of
dialogue with the reader, one of Freud's stylistic strengths, and
allowing us to follow Freud's theory as it evolved through
difficult cases, apparently intractable counter-examples, and
fascinating analyses of Freud's own dreams.
The restoration of Freud's classic is a major event, giving us in
a sense a new work by one of this century' most startling,
original, and influential thinkers.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Castle (Paperback, Critical)
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell; Edited by Ritchie Robertson
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Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered
almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff
of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks
new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and
power, asking why the villagers so readily submit to an authority
which may exist only in their collective imagination. Published
only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as
modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and
is among the central works of modern literature. This new
translation by prize-winning translator Anthea Bell follows the
German text established by critical scholarship, and mentions
manuscript variants in the notes. The detailed introduction by
Ritchie Robertson, a leading Kafka scholar, explores the many
meanings of this famously enigmatic novel, providing guidance
without reducing the reader's freedom to make sense of this
fascinating novel. In addition, the edition includes a Biographical
Preface which places Kafka within the context of his time, plus an
up-to-date bibliography and chronology of Kafka's life.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Conversations with Goethe (Paperback)
Johann Peter Eckermann; Translated by Allan Blunden; Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
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A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest
writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years 'The
best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth
century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
was one of the most famous people in the world. In 1823 he became
friend and mentor to the young writer Johann Eckermann, who, for
the last nine years of Goethe's life, recorded their wide-ranging
conversations on art, literature, science and philosophy. This rich
portrait of Germany's literary elder statesman, now in its first
new translation for over 150 years, gives a fascinating glimpse
into a great mind as well as 'many insights and invaluable lessons
about life.' Translated by Allan Blunden with an Introduction by
Ritchie Robertson
The Birdsong Papers, which appeared in 1896 as Die Akten des
Vogelsangs, was Wilhelm Raabe's next-to-last completed narrative.
What might be called an anti-Bildungsroman, it is widely considered
to be the work that secures Raabe's place as a precursor of German
modernist fiction writers. Its tone is critical of
late-nineteenth-century society, both German and American, with its
industrial expansion, urbanization, pursuit of wealth, and erosion
of conventional values; but this critical tone also produces an
uneasy tension for its narrator, Karl Krumhardt, a high-ranking
bureaucrat with a stake in the stability of that society. It is
against that social-critical background that Krumhardt's Papers
record a coming to terms with a subject - his longtime friend
Velten Andres - whose life both fascinates and profoundly unsettles
him.
No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century
has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as
Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world depicted
in Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and
critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new
readings. One thing has become wholly clear: although all theories
attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The
challenge to critics has been to present a strong point of view
while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that
has been met by the contributors to this volume. The essays follow
an introduction by the editor,and include: Clayton Koelb on the
controversial question of Kafka editions; Walter H. Sokel on a life
of reading--and writing about--Kafka; Judith Ryan on the early
stories; Russell A. Berman on tradition and betrayal in `The
Judgment'; Ritchie Robertson on anti-Christian elements in `The
Judgment,' `The Metamorphosis,' and the aphorisms; Henry Sussman on
Kafka's evolving aesthetics; Stanley Corngold on The Trial; Bianca
Theisen on Kafka's use of circus motifs in the stories `Up in the
Gallery' and `First Sorrow'; Rolf J. Goebel on the connection of
Kafka's The Missing Person, `In the Penal Colony,' and `The Great
Wall of China' to postcolonial critique; Richard T. Gray on the
semiotics and aesthetics of `In the Penal Colony'; Ruth V. Gross on
the `enigmatics' of the short fiction; Sander L. Gilman on Kafka's
Jewishness and the story `The Country Doctor'; John Zilcosky on the
colonial visionsin The Castle; Mark Harman on the variants to The
Castle and what they tell us about Kafka's writing process; and
Clayton Koelb on Kafka's rhetoric in the late stories `Josephine
the Singer' and `The Burrow.' James Rolleston is Emeritus Professor
of German at Duke University and has written widely on topics in
modern German literature.
In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the
greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable
gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and
richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.'
In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life
and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist,
administrator, artist, art critic and supreme literary writer in a
vast variety of genres. Looking at Goethe's poetry, novels and
drama pieces, as well as his travel writing, autobiography, and
essays on art and aesthetics, Robertson analyses some of the key
themes in his works: love, nature, religion and tragedy. Dispelling
the misconception of Goethe as a sedate Victorian sage, Robertson
shows how much of his art was rooted in turbulent personal
conflicts, and draws on recent research to present a complete
portrait of the scientific work and political activity which
accompanied Goethe's writings. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
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are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
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The Harz Journey and Selected Prose (Paperback)
Heinrich Heine; Edited by Ritchie Robertson; Introduction by Ritchie Robertson; Notes by Ritchie Robertson; Translated by Ritchie Robertson
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A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann,
Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his
lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection
charts the development of that prose, beginning with three
meditative works from the Travel Pictures, inspired by Heine's
journeys as a young man to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains.
Exploring the development of spirituality, the later On the History
of Religion and Philosophy in Germany spans the earliest religious
beliefs of the Germanic people to the philosophy of Hegel, and
warns with startling force of the dangers of yielding to 'primeval
Germanic paganism'. Finally, the Memoirs consider Heine's Jewish
heritage and describe his early childhood. As rich in humour,
satire, lyricism and anger as his greatest poems, together the
pieces offer a fascinating insight into a brilliant and prophetic
mind.
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.
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