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Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic
An opening section on the 1950s - a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration - provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s and examines shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation."--BOOK JACKET.
Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today
Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.
Cultural Impact in the German Context
Examines, then employs the metaphor of cultural impact in an effort to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world. How to gauge the impact of cultural products is an old question, but bureaucratic agendas such as the one recently implemented in the UK to measure the impact of university research (including in German Studies) are new. Impact isseen as confirming a cultural product's value for society -- not least in the eyes of cultural funders. Yet its use as an evaluative category has been widely criticized by academics. Rather than rejecting the concept of impact, however, this volume employs it as a metaphor to reflect on issues of transmission, reception, and influence tha...
Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.
Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-language Literature and Culture
Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films.There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the other"in its various manifestations. And in the German context espec...
W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics
This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates...
Libraries, Literatures, and Archives
Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices – literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art –with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studi...
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Atlas of Emergency Procedures
From the simple to the complex, this visually stunning atlas guides you through more than 100 commonly performed emergency procedures in step-by-step detail. Each procedure includes a brief discussion of its indications, contraindications, equipment requirements, and complications and their management. Key to each discussion is the concise, yet detailed description of the procedure. Each procedure is followed by a discussion, including technical tips. Alternative techniques are offered throughout, providing the reader with a variety of options for a particular procedure. Step-by-step text is on the page opposite the technique illustrations for ease of reference. Details for each procedure include preparation and draping, anesthesia or sedation, performance of the procedure, and disposition. Detailed line drawings are based on observation of procedures, drawn from the perspective of the physician. Variations between field management vs. ED management are addressed throughout: e.g., defibrillation in the ED vs. defibrillation in wet environment such as rain or a near-drowning. Technical pearls and pitfalls are offered for each procedure.
Critical Essays on Elias Canetti
This Austrian writer and Nobel Laureate ("Auto-da-Fé , Crowds" and "Power") is hailed as one of the canonical authors of the modern period.
