German Women Writers And The Spatial Turn New Perspectives

Author : Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110392333

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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives by Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner Pdf

In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The collection of essays, German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives, connects spatial studies, German studies, and women’s writing, and emphasizes a return to the written word as an original site of cultural interrogation.

Author : Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110378283

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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives by Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner Pdf

In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography.The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.

Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472821

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German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust by Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Examines women's life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Author : Jaimey Fisher,Barbara Caroline Mennel
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042030015

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Spatial Turns by Jaimey Fisher,Barbara Caroline Mennel Pdf

The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.

Author : Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501313455

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Sissi’s World by Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke Pdf

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Author : Anke Finger,Julie Shoults
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472903672

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Women in German Expressionism by Anke Finger,Julie Shoults Pdf

This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, “New Man,” viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by—much belatedly—including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.

Author : Adrienne Edgar,Benjamin Frommer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496202116

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Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia by Adrienne Edgar,Benjamin Frommer Pdf

Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan. In this interdisciplinary volume Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer have drawn contributions from anthropologists and historians. The contributors explore the phenomenon of intermarriage both from the top down, in the form of state policies and official categories, and from the bottom up, through an intimate look at the experience and agency of mixed families in modern states determined to control the lives and identities of their citizens to an unprecedented degree. Contributors address the tensions between state ethnic categories and the subjective identities of individuals, the status of mixed individuals and families in a region characterized by continual changes in national borders and regimes, and the role of intermarried couples and their descendants in imagining supranational communities. The first of its kind, Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia is a foundational text for the study of intermarriage and ethnic mixing in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Author : Necia Chronister
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673975

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Domestic Disputes by Necia Chronister Pdf

Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict property disputes between former East and West Germans. In the cultural productions discussed in this book, anxieties about social disenfranchisement through unification policy are dramatized in narratives in which Westerners acquire, or attempt to acquire, property in the former East Germany. Each chapter addresses a different type of narrative that has emerged to frame those anxieties, including those of neocolonial Western takeover, the engagement with difficult family histories, masculinity crises in the West, and the corporatization of home. Domestic Disputes is the first book-length study to outline the way in which homes were awarded to individuals and families as the former East Germany privatized and to offer in-depth examinations of the narratives that emerged from that social phenomenon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCBK:C117509736

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Monatshefte by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335851

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Transitions by Anonim Pdf

This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united Germany; globalisation, the dissolution of borders, and the changing face of Europe; dramatic shifts in the meaning of national, ethnic, sexual, gender, religious, and class identities; rapid technological advancement and the revolutionary power of new media, which in turn have radically altered the connections between public and private, personal and political. In their literature, the authors presented here reflect on the notion of transition and offer some unique interventions on its meaning in the contemporary era.

Author : Hilary Brown
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3039103016

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Landmarks in German Women's Writing by Hilary Brown Pdf

This volume focuses on twelve women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day who have made a major contribution to German literature. The essays place the writers in the context of their period and examine how their position as women affected what they wrote and the reception of their texts.

Author : Margaret Littler
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 063120928X

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Gendering German Studies by Margaret Littler Pdf

This collection of essays demonstrates across a spectrum of cultural topics the productive intersection of feminism and German Studies. Taking gender as a central analytical catagory, the authors explore German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, aspects of popular culture and film, and the impact of institutional and linguistic structures on womens's lives. Both in the variety of subjects treated and methodologies deployed, they reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary face of British German Studies today.

Author : Elisabeth Krimmer,Lauren Nossett
Publisher : Women and Gender in German Stu
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140783

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Writing the Self, Creating Community by Elisabeth Krimmer,Lauren Nossett Pdf

This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.

Author : Chris Weedon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734098

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Post-war Women's Writing in German by Chris Weedon Pdf

Women in the Federal Republic, the former GDR, Switzerland and Austria have initiated a remarkable literary movement, especially after 1968, which is also attracting growing attention elsewhere. Informed by critical feminist and literary theory, this broad-ranging collection, the first of its kind, examines the history of these writings in the context of the social and political developments in the respective countries. It combines survey chapters with detailed studies of prominent authors whose work is often unavailable in English.

Author : Elisabeth Rütschi Herrmann,Edna Huttenmaier Spitz
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : German fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B3632735

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German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century by Elisabeth Rütschi Herrmann,Edna Huttenmaier Spitz Pdf