The Challenge of German Culture

Essays Presented to Wilfried Van Der Will
2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-333-80090-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: New Perspectives in German Political Studies

A wide-ranging collection of essays by leading British, American and German scholars, covering German literature, culture and politics from the Middle Ages to the present day. Based mainly on original research, the individual contributions reveal the rich complexity and vitality of contemporary German studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, M.

Evans, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Notes on the Contributors Wilfried van der Will; M.Butler Hadubrand's 'Frageversäumnis' in the Hildebrandslied; R.Evans Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's Willehalm and in the Bataille d'Aliscans Bürger and 'das schwankende Wort Volk'; D.Hill Moments of Emancipation: The Nineteenth-century Heroine in German Literature; R.Whittle 'Apollo aber schlieblich die Sprache des Dionysus'; Harmony or Hegemony in Die Geburt der Tragödie?; R.Speirs Ernst Stadler in Oxford; R.Sheppard Historicity and all that: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht's Die Mabnahme; M.Swales 'Zwischen den Zeilen'? The Development of Dolf Sternberger's political 'Sprachkritik' from the 'Wörterbuch der Regierung von Papen' to 'Ein guter Ausdruck'; B.Dodd The Paradox of Simultaneity: 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' in Paul Schallück's Engelbert Reineke; J.Klapper Authenticity and the 'Speaking Other': Günter Wallraff's Ganz unten as an Industrial Fiction; R.Burns Der parodierte Erzähler Grass: Anmerkungem zur Wirkung des Romans Die Rättin; M.Durzak East German Literature and the Cold War: The Example of Erich Loest's Die Westmark fällt weiter; M.Kane Was bleibt Revisited: Christa Wolf and the Fear of Transience; M.Butler High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public; K.Bullivant Reflections on Jewish Culture in Germany since 1945; E.Kolinsky Visiting Frau Behrens; B.Taylor Reflections on German History and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism; G.Minnerup The Social Dynamics of Dictatorship: Re-evaluating the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic from the 'Bottom Up'; J.Grix & C.Jeffery The Impact of 1968 on the SPD; W.E.Patterson Wilfried van der Will: Publications Tabula gratulatoria Index

Über Autor(innen)

KEITH BULLIVANT Professor of German, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
ROB BURNS Professor of German Studies, University of Warwick, UK
BILL DODD Reader in German, University of Birmingham
MANFRED DURZAK Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Paderborn, Germany
JONATHAN GRIX Research Fellow, Institute of German Studies, University of Birmingham
NIGEL HARRIS Senior Lecturer in German, University of Birmingham
DAVID HILL Senior Lecturer in German, University of Birmingham
CHARLIE JEFFERY Professor of German Politics and Deputy Director, Institute of German Studies, University of Birmingham
MARTIN KANE Reader in Modern German Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury
JOHN KLAPPER Senior Lecturer in German, University of Birmingham
EVA KOLINSKY Professor of Modern German Studies, University of Keele
GÜNTER MINNERUP Lecturer in German, University of Birmingham
WILLIAM E. PATERSON Professor of Director, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham
RICHARD SHEPPARD Titular Professor of German and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
RONALD SPEIRS Professor of German, University of Birmingham
MARTIN SWALES Professor of German, University College London
BRANDON TAYLOR Professor of History of Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
RUTH WHITTLE Lecturer in German, University of Birmingham