TY - BOOK ID - 7217720 TI - Cultural impact in the German context AU - Braun, Rebecca AU - Marven, Lyn PY - 2010 SN - 9781571134301 1571134301 9781571137210 PB - Rochester, N.Y. Camden House DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - Culture in literature KW - Politics in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Culture in literature. KW - Politics in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - German literature - 20th century - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7217720 AB - 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 is seen 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 that have always underlain cultural production but have escaped systematic conceptualization. It seeks to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world: how writers and artists express themselves, how readers and audiences engage with the resulting products, and how academics are drawn to analyze this dynamic process. Formulating such questions afresh in the context of German Studies, the volume examines both contemporary cultural discourse and the way it evolves more generally. It links such topics as authorial intention, readerly reception, intertextuality, and modes of perception to less commonly studied phenomena, such as the institutional practices of funding bodies, that underpin cultural discourse. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley, Rebecca Braun, Sarah Colvin, Anne Fuchs, Katrin Kohl, Karen Leeder, Jürgen Luh, Jenny McKay, Ben Morgan, Gunther Nickel, Chloe Paver, Joanne Sayner, Matthew Philpotts, Jane Wilkinson ER -