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The Real of Reality: The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory
Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book’s contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophically underexplored potential of film to disclose what the editors propose to call “the real of reality.”
Culture in Nazi Germany
A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the arts were closely tied to the propaganda machine that promoted the cause of Germany's military campaigns. Michael H. Kater's engaging and deeply researched account of artistic culture within Nazi Germany considers how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed when the Nazis came to power. With a broad purview that ranges widely across music, literature, film, theater, the press, and visual arts, Kater details the struggle between creative autonomy and political control as he looks at what became of German artists and their work both during and subsequent to Nazi rule.
Tales That Touch
Cultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways. Instead of corralling them into identity categories, whether German or otherwise, the essays in this volume, building on the influential work of Leslie A. Adelson, interrogate how to respond to their methodological challenge in innovative ways. Investigating a wide variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts that touch upon "things German" in the broadest sense—from print and born-digital literature to essay film, nature drawings, and memorial sites—the contributions employ transnational and multilingual lenses to show how these w...
More Nights than Days
This is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust—including Roma and Sinti victims—and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a different range of coping techniques than adults. This overview of the writings of ninety-one child survivors bears evidence to a wide range of human ruthlessness. The author presents little-known texts along with famous memoirs and autobiographical fiction, with abundant quotations. Many of these are not only compelling as historical testimony, but poetic,...
Values
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.
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.
Juli Zeh
This volume casts a critical light on one of Germany’s bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh’s literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent years and in the wake of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Zeh’s output has only increased, though her most recent work, Unterleuten (2016), Über Menschen (2021), and Zwischen Welten (2023; co-written with Simon Urban), has evolved away from the literary and philosophical thought that informed her more nuanced earlier work and towards a more conservative representation of contemporary social dynamics. While her work continues to garner prestigious ...
Aufbruch
Wie schreiben interkulturelle Gegenwartsautor*innen über Heimat? Die Studie gibt erstmalig Antwort darauf, indem sie das Aufspüren einer hybriden Heimatästhetik in das Blickfeld stellt. Nicht selten ist im gesellschaftlichen Heimatdiskurs die Rede von der Unübersetzbarkeit des Wortes ›Heimat‹. So avanciert der Begriff zu einem hermetischen Konzept, dessen Verwendung auf den deutschsprachigen Kulturraum begrenzt scheint. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht die Studie, wie Gegenwartsautor*innen anderer kultureller Herkunft, die aber in deutscher Sprache literarische Texte veröffentlichen, Heimat narrativ entwerfen. Im Zentrum steht die These, dass das literarische Schreiben von Lena Gor...
Postjugoslawische Reisen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Die Studie widmet sich signifikanten Veränderungen innerhalb des literarischen Feldes zum Erzählgegenstand Jugoslawien: Zwischen der Veröffentlichung von Peter Handkes Winterlicher Reise (1996) und Saša Stanišićs Erzählwerk Herkunft (2019) ist eine diskursive Verschiebung von ‚fremden‘, externen Perspektiven auf den (post-)jugoslawischen Kulturraum zu autobiographischen Erzähltexten zu beobachten, was sich besonders gut an der Handke-Nobelpreis-Debatte im Jahr 2019 erkennen lässt. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand der Studie bilden Erzähltexte, die auf eigenen oder familiären Erfahrungen von Flucht und Migration dreier Autor:innen aufbauen: Saša Stanišić, Jagoda Marinić und Mark...
GERMANNESS
"How far have the Germans distanced themselves from their history? The word 'fatherland' no longer crosses anyone's lips today. Not only because it was perverted and stained with blood during the Nazi era, but also because it is assigned to a world that no longer exists for us." (Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, publicist) Gerd Wange gets to the bottom of these and other questions about Germany, Germans and Germanness, starting with Wilhelm II's empire, continuing through the Weimar Republic, the Roaring Twenties, Hitler's dictatorship, the GDR, neo-Nazism, and ending with the technical achievements of today - passionately, critically, excellently researched, and scientifically well-founded, with numerous quotations from well-known authors and publications.
