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The Wounded Self
Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.
Sharon's First Case
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Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importanc...
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Reading the Social in American Studies
Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature—understood broadly—to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.
Shadowland
A history of modern Germany told not through the lives of its leaders, but its lawbreakers. As Nelson Mandela said, “a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany’s prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself. The story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse, in which orphaned and lost children are forced into homelessness, scavenging and stealing to stay alive, often laying the foundations of a so-called criminal career. While East Germany developed detention facilities for its secret police, West Germany passed prison reform laws, which erected, in the words of a prisoner, “little asbestos walls in Hell.” Shadowland is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs, and tragedies of its lowest citizens.
Vom allmählichen Verschwinden der Didaktik
Die Empirisierung der Deutschdidaktik und in ihrer Folge die Kompetenzorientierung und Standardisierung von Lehren und Lernen an Schulen und Universitäten haben inzwischen zu einem offenkundigen Kollateralschaden geführt, der den Kern didaktischen Denkens und Handelns auf schleichende Weise erodiert. Wenn Inhalte nicht mehr begründet ausgewählt und hinterfragt werden und Methoden das angestrengte Nachdenken über einen Gegenstand ersetzen, dann verschwindet die Didaktik allmählich. Am Beispiel der Schreibdidaktik lässt sich schon heute zeigen, was passiert, wenn das Schreiben immer weniger als Verstehens- und Imaginationsarbeit bzw. als eine ganzheitliche und reflexive Erfahrung betrachtet wird.
