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Werke und Briefe
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Reworking the German Past
Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has been a surge of interest in adaptation of literary works in recent years. Numerous volumes have theorized, chronicled, or analyzed adaptations from novel to film, asking how and why adaptations are undertaken and what happens when a text is adapted in a particular historical context. With its focus on adaptation of twentieth-century German texts not only from one medium to another but also from one cultural moment to another, the present collection resides at the intersection of these two areas of inquiry. The ten essays treat a variety of media. ...
Winter
Goethe hat dem Winter erstaunlich viel abgewinnen können. Als leidenschaftlicher Eisläufer begegnet er uns immer wieder, der Mond am Winterhimmel fesselt ihn im Norden wie im Süden, und er hat die riskante »Harzreise im Winter« als eine Art Orakel über seinen weiteren Weg unternommen. Überraschend ist das besondere Gewicht, das Goethe mit dem Weihnachtsfest verbindet – als einer vielfach ganz neu erzählten Geschichte, die durch alle Gattungen seines Werkes und alle Stationen seines Lebens führt. Nicht zuletzt haben ihn besonders die Heiligen Drei Könige gefesselt.
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Falling in Love with Statues
"From Greek statues to porcelain dolls to digital avatars, countless generations of artificial humans have fascinated, seduced, and earned the devotion of their flesh-and-blood creators. Falling in Love with Statues reveals that these relationships have played an instrumental role throughout human history in our efforts to understand, improve, and empower ourselves."--Inside jacket.
Breaking the Magic Spell
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbiotic relationship between folklore and literature.
