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Into the Groove
A new and wide-ranging view of the confluence, since the 1990s, of the fields of contemporary literature and popular music in Germany.
German Culture, Politics, and Literature Into the Twenty-first Century
This volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned international experts on German society, culture, and politics that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy, economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since 1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become crucial to Germany's self-understanding. Despite the apparent emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns -- notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central to poli...
Edinburgh German Yearbook 14
Examines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.
The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
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Über die Wirkungsmacht der Rede
English summary: For linguistics, political speeches offer the appropriate chance to observe the effects of communication due to their focus on contents and topical variety. The discussion of individual communication phenomena may lead to an inexact result though if those are not linked to context and reception, and furthermore to a critical evaluation. In this book, the approaches of text and discourse analysis are combined with the instruments of rhetoric, effect aesthetics, and reception research. Due to this combination, reliable results can be achieved for the production of a text as well as for its construction and final reception. The methodological approach is evaluated on contempora...
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy
This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media studies, philosophy, and cultural studies. An analytical rather than evaluative work, it dispenses with extended theoretical discussions and academic jargon. Assuming that readers are familiar with the entire trilogy, the book also avoids plot summary and character analysis, instead focusing on the significance of the story and its characters. It includes a biographical essay, glossaries, questions for further study, and an extensive bibliography. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
»Wir waren hochgemute Nichtskönner«
Heute strömen Kulturschaffende scharenweise nach Berlin, doch in den 80er- und 90er-Jahren lag das unbestrittene Zentrum der bundesdeutschen Kunst- und Kulturszene ganz woanders: in Köln. Der Startschuss für Kölns Aufstieg fiel am 15. Januar 1980, als im Basement die unbekannte britische Band Joy Division spielte. Peter Bömmels, Mitglied der Künstlergruppe »Mühlheimer Freiheit«, war von diesem neuen Sound dermaßen beeindruckt, dass er kurz darauf mit sieben Mitstreiter:innen die Zeitschrift SPEX gründete. Hier meldete sich ein ganz neuer Musikjournalismus zu Wort, dessen kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen und steile Thesen nachts an denselben Kneipentresen ersonnen wurden, an denen ...
