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Author : Sophie Duvernoy,Karsten Olson,UIrich Plass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : German literature
ISBN : 150139150X
"An exploration of representations of social precarity in German literature and culture from the 19th to 21st centuries"--
Author : Sophie Duvernoy,Karsten Olson,Ulrich Plass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501391491
Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality. “Precarity is everywhere now,” sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and “deaths of despair” are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film explores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.
Author : Olivier Morel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765107416
Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright. Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish-German family figures and topics have significantly informed most of Cixous's late works. Born in Algeria in June 1937, she grew up with a mother who had escaped Germany after the rise of Nazism and a grandmother who fled the racial laws of the Third Reich in 1938. In her writing, Cixous refines the primitive scene of a “German” upbringing in French-occupied colonial, antisemitic Algeria. Scholar and filmmaker Olivier Morel delves into the signs and influences that “Germany,” “German,” and “Osnabrück” have exerted over Cixous's work. Featuring an exclusive interview with Hélène Cixous and stills from their travel together to Osnabrück in Morel's 2018 documentary, Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous, Morel's The “German Illusion” examines the unique literary meditation on the Holocaust sustained throughout her later texts. Morel helps us to understand an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity's genocidal history in a new way.
Author : Robert von Dassanowsky,Katherine Arens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765112601
A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture. For over 300 years, Salzburg had its own legacy as a city-state at an international crossroads, less stratified than Europe's colonial capitals and seeking a political identity based in civic participation with its own economy and politics. After World War I, Salzburg became a refuge. Its urban and bucolic spaces staged encounters that had been brutally cut apart by the war; its deep-seated traditions of citizenship, art, and education guided its path. In Interwar Salzburg, contributors from around the globe recover an evolving but now lost vanguard of European culture, fostering not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public (not an international elite) and a civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities serving a new European ideal.
Author : Mandy Link
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031493256
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499692325
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290903271
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501735101
"Explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and is peculiar to our current moment"--
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849010640
Author : Karen Leeder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107006362
The first volume in English about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a cultural phenomenon, with essays by leading scholars providing a chronological and genre-based overview along with close readings of individual works. It addresses the history and context of GDR culture, including the two decades since its decline.
Author : Helmut Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016277920
Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through GÃ1/4nter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.
Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : German literature
ISBN : OCLC:614345352
Author : Sabine Wilke,Japhet Johnstone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501307768
Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth's future. Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use. What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.
Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252050961
From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004466395
Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson
