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Bairisch-österreichische Dialektliteratur vor 1800 : Eine andere Literaturgeschichte
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ISBN: 3205209192 3205206304 9783205209195 Year: 2019 Publisher: Böhlau

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Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen, Arbeiten und Autoren, kontextualisieren die bislang überwiegend nicht edierten Werke aus einer Vielzahl an Archiven und Bibliotheken und stellen sie in aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszusammenhänge.Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen, Arbeiten und Autoren, kontextualisieren die bislang überwiegend nicht edierten Werke aus einer Vielzahl an Archiven und Bibliotheken und stellen sie in aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszusammenhänge.

A companion to German realism, 1848-1900
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ISBN: 1571133224 157113610X Year: 2002 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its dominance of the German literary landscape. It includes essays on familiar, canonical authors -- Stifter, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Thomas Mann -- and canonical texts, but also considers writers frequently omitted from traditional literary histories, such as Luise Mühlbach, Friedrich Spielhagen, Louise von François, Karl May, and Eugenie Marlitt. The introduction situates German realism in the context of both German literary history and of developments in other European literatures, and surveys the most prominent critical studies of ninteenth-century realism. The essays treat the following topics: Stifter's Brigitta and the lesson of realism; Mühlbach, Ranke, and the truth of historical fiction; regional histories as national history in Freytag's Die Ahnen; gender and nation in Louise von François's historical fiction; theory, reputation, and the career of Friedrich Spielhagen; Wilhelm Raabe and the German colonial experience; the poetics of work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe; Jewish identity in Berthold Auerbach's novels; Eugenie Marlitt's narratives of virtuous desire; the appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire; Thomas Mann's portrayal of male-male desire in his early short fiction; and Fontane's Effi Briest and the end of realism. Contributors: Robert C. Holub, Brent O. Petersen, Lynne Tatlock, Thomas C. Fox, Jeffrey L. Sammons, John Pizer, Hans J. Rindisbacher, Irene S. Di Maio, Kirsten Belgum, Nina Berman, Robert Tobin, Russell A. Berman. Todd Kontje is professor of German at the University of California, San Diego.


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German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century

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What is the status of women's writing in German today, in an era when feminism has thoroughly problematized binary conceptions of sex and gender? Drawing on gender and queer theory, including the work of Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which "women's literature" has been conceived. With an eye to the literary and feminist legacy of authors such as Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, contributors treat the works of many of contemporary Germany's most significant literary voices, including Hatice Akyün, Sibylle Berg, Thea Dorn, Tanja Dückers, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Katharina Hacker, Charlotte Roche, Julia Schoch, and Antje Rávic Strubel -- authors who, through their writing or their role in the media, engage with questions of what it means to be a woman writer in twenty-first-century Germany. Contributors: Hester Baer, Necia Chronister, Helga Druxes, Valerie Heffernan, Alexandra Merley Hill, Lindsey Lawton, Sheridan Marshall, Beret Norman, Mihaela Petrescu, Jill Suzanne Smith, Carrie Smith-Prei, Maria Stehle, Katherine Stone. Hester Baer is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Maryland. Alexandra Merley Hill is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Portland.

The monster that is history
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ISBN: 0520238737 9780520238732 9780520231405 0520231406 9786612762949 0520937244 128276294X 1597349445 9780520937246 1417574011 9781417574018 9781597349444 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese-often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude-this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment.


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Medieval narratives of Alexander the Great : transnational texts in England and France
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ISBN: 9781843845027 1843845024 9781787442559 1787442551 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer,


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Archives of Authority
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ISBN: 1283539861 9786613852311 1400842174 9781400842179 0691154155 9780691154152 9780691154152 9781283539869 6613852317 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Andrew Rubin argues that this transfer reshaped the postwar literary space and he shows how, during this time, new and efficient modes of cultural transmission, replication, and travel--such as radio and rapidly and globally circulated journals--completely transformed the position occupied by the postwar writer and the role of world literature. Rubin demonstrates that the nearly instantaneous translation of texts by George Orwell, Thomas Mann, W. H. Auden, Richard Wright, Mary McCarthy, and Albert Camus, among others, into interrelated journals that were sponsored by organizations such as the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom and circulated around the world effectively reshaped writers, critics, and intellectuals into easily recognizable, transnational figures. Their work formed a new canon of world literature that was celebrated in the United States and supposedly represented the best of contemporary thought, while less politically attractive authors were ignored or even demonized. This championing and demonizing of writers occurred in the name of anti-Communism--the new, transatlantic "civilizing mission" through which postwar cultural and literary authority emerged.


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Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell
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ISBN: 9781526113887 1526113880 9781526127938 1526127938 9781526113894 1526138891 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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'Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell' offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.

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