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Author: Robert von Hallberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-03
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780226864983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir literary culture destroyed, they were rebuked for compliant service to the discredited state; and some were reviled for collaborating with the East German secret police, the Stasi.
Author: Robert von Halberg
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Published: 1996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph A. Biesinger
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 0816074712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wealth of information is presented in this guide in a variety of formats, including a concise narrative history, a chronology and A to Z entries, to provide readers with a greater understanding of German history, from the Renaissance to the present day.
Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780231114042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Author: Derek Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 847
ISBN-13: 144226957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germanyprovides a comprehensive overview of most aspects of life and institutions in contemporary Germany. It also introduces the reader to the historical development of both East and West Germany between 1949 and 1990, and addresses the various issues arising from reunification. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Germany.
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-09-13
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 113692051X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and documenting its persistence today. Contrasting different types of music reveals how music expresses core ideas of nationalism, for example, folk music in the nineteenth century and popular music in the twenty-first.
Author: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780822323204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays on our contemporary tendency to revisit Enlightenment concerns and the ways attributes of the 'highest'--reason, ethics, high cultural aesthetics, even theory--have become implicated with and confused with the 'lowes
Author: Dominic Rainsford
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1349271888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current resurgence of ethics in the beleaguered humanities reflects an increasing anxiety about the value and utility of critical/philosophical debate in the wake of poststructuralism. This book addresses this 'return to ethics' in relation to a wide variety of theories and texts. It covers substantial areas of ethical debate, particularly in relation to queer politics, biography, history, postmodernism, atrocity literature, utilitarianism, pedagogy and the philosophy of science. Theorists discussed in the volume include Rorty, Heidegger, Levinas, Mill, Lyotard, Leavis, Kuhn, Davidson, Nussbaum and Freud.
Author: Sara Jones
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3110237962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study develops an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, examining the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from a literary and historical perspective. Divided into three case studies, the work focuses on writers positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent and who had quite different relationships to political power: Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Brüning. Drawing on and comparing unpublished archive material, autobiography and the literary output of the three named writers, this study brings to the fore the ambiguities and contradictions of intellectual life in the GDR. Tensions between the different sources point towards tensions inherent in the subject positions of writers, publishers, reviewers and cultural authorities. This granular approach to the study of GDR cultural history challenges top-down interpretations and builds into a theoretical understanding of GDR cultural life based on the concepts of ambiguity and ambivalence and the increasing fragmentation of ideology. Comparison with other spheres of GDR life points towards the significance of these concepts for the study of East German society as a whole.
Author: Paul Cooke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9004485619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social ‘taboos’, as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig’s critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig’s texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state’s official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the ‘taboo’, i.e. that which is excluded from the state’s official discourse, Hilbig’s characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.
