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From Popular Goethe to Global Pop
This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.
And It's All There - Intertextual Structures, Themes, and Characters in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series
Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: With the growth in popularity due to series like Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and the motif's recurring presence in cinematic adaptations of Stoker's Dracula as well as various TV formats public interest has never ceased to the present day. As the most significant characteristic of the vampire is its being multi-faceted and changing, its potential to be also of great intertextual value can be thereupon considered. Consequently, it can be assumed that Meyer's tetralogy clearly...
The Politics of Dementia
Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres – novels, auto/biographical writings, documentary as well as fictional films and graphic memoirs – represent dementia for the sake of critical explorations of memory, trauma and contested truths. In ten analytical chapters and one piece of graphic art, the contributors examine the ways in which what might seem to be the individual, ahistorical diseases of dementia are used in contemporary cultural texts to represent and respond to violent historical and political events – ranging from the Holocaust to postcolonial conditions – all of which can prove difficult to remember. Combining approaches from literary studies with insights from memory studies, trauma studies, anthropology, the critical medical humanities and media, film and comics studies, this volume explores the politics of dementia and incites new debates on cultures of remembrance, while remaining attentive to the lived reality of dementia.
Social Media Strategy
The fourth edition of Social Media Strategy is an essential step-by-step blueprint for innovating change, supporting traditional marketing, advertising, and PR efforts, and leveraging consumer influence in the digital world. With a completely integrated marketing, advertising, and public relations framework, Keith Quesenberry’s up-to-date textbook goes beyond tips and tricks to systematically explore the unique qualities, challenges, and opportunities of social media. Students learn core principles and proven processes to build unique social media plans that integrate paid, earned, shared, and owned media based on business objectives, target audiences, big ideas, and social media categorie...
Gedächtnis und kultureller Wandel
Die Diskussion über die Historizität und Kulturalität von Sprache und Literatur hat das Interesse der Germanistik verstärkt auf die anthropologischen, biologischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Voraussetzungen gerichtet, unter denen die Rede von der Entstehung eines individuellen und kollektiven Gedächtnisses unter Differenzierung von Fremdem und Eigenem erst sinnvoll ist. Der Deutsche Germanistentag 2007 in Marburg hat sich ausführlich mit dieser Thematik in einer Reihe von Vorträgen befasst, die im vorliegenden Band publiziert werden. Exemplarisch untersuchen die Beiträge die komplexen Prozesse literarischer Gedächtnisbildung und -reflexion in synchroner wie in diachroner Perspektive. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' und 'Erinnerungsarbeit' bei prominenten Autoren wie Günter Grass, Botho Strauß oder Arno Schmidt. Unter Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse der Xenologie, der Kognitionswissenschaft und der konstruktivistischen Gedächtnisforschung wird zugleich versucht, die Bedingungen für sprachlichen, literarischen und kulturellen Wandel zu erfassen.
The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe
The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in the form of divisive nationalism that have reappeared since the disappearance of the Iron Curtain.
Documenting Socialism
More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism moves beyond the traditionally analyzed "feature film production" and places East Germany's documentary cinema at the center of history behind the Iron Curtain. Between questions of gender, race and sexuality and the complexities of diversity under the political and cultural environments of socialism, the specialist contributions in this volume cohere into an introductory milestone on documentary film production in the GDR.
Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre
This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship with drama, to its impact upon post-dramatic forms, this is the definitive work in its field. Lehmann plots a course through the history of dramatic thought, taking in Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Wagner, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Brecht, Kantor, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane.
