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Neo-historicism : studies in Renaissance literature, history and politics
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ISBN: 184615331X Year: 2000 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer,

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Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.


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Contemporary dance
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ISBN: 1787443159 184701187X Year: 2018 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer


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Perspectives on gender in post-1945 German literature
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ISBN: 9781571134233 1571134239 9781571137463 9786612795664 1571137467 128279566X Year: 2009 Volume: *61 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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Rooted in Enlightenment rationalism, modernity tends to privilege masculine-connoted characteristics - conscious subjective agency, rational control and self-containment, the subjugation of nature - and has generated a conceptualization of human subjectivity emphasizing these qualities. Yet the costs of this conception of human selfhood are high, and at modernity's most acute moments of historical crisis writers and artists can be seen turning to feminine-connoted figurations - nature, tradition, myth and spirituality, intuition, relationality, flux. In recent decades studies have examined the cultural crisis of German modernity, notably at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, as a crisis of masculinity. Feminist critiques, meanwhile, have viewed cultural history as male-generated and 'phallocentric,' in need of a feminine corrective. The innovation of this book is to examine these two gendered perspectives side by side, investigating the culturally symbolic significance of gender in post 1945 German language literature via a sequence of paired readings of major, thematically related texts by male and female authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann's novel 'Malina' (1971) and Max Frisch's 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein' (1964); Frisch's 'Homo Faber' (1957) and Christa Wolf's 'Störfall' (1987); Elfriede Jelinek's 'Die Klavierspielerin' and Rainald Goetz's 'Irre' (both 1983); and Heiner Müller's 'Die Hamletmaschine' (1977) and Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra' (1983). Finally, Barbara Köhler's eight-poem cycle 'Elektra. Spiegelungen' (written 1984-85; published 1991) is considered as offering a way past the 'impasse' of the male and female viewpoints. Georgina Paul is University Lecturer in German at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Hilda's College.


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Queer theory in film & fiction
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ISBN: 9781847011848 1847011845 9781847011855 1847011853 9781787443730 1787443736 1787443744 Year: 2018 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey,

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