Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays by leading German scholars from Britain, Germany, and the United States covers German literature, culture, and politics from the Middle Ages to the present day. Literary analysis is combined with approaches derived from sociology and cultural studies; historical assessment of literature and writers is accompanied by close linguistic criticism of texts. Essays on intellectual history, the continuing impact of the Third Reich on literature, parody, the tension between high and low literature, and the special case of cultural production, including fine art, in the former German Democratic Republic are balanced with discussion of the impact of dictatorship and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism on German society, the revival of Jewry since 1945, and the legacy of "1968" on contemporary German Politics. The result is a fascinating, if electic, introduction to the vitality and richness of university German studies on the threshold of the new millennium.
Description
"Wilfried van der Will: publications": p. 213-215. Includes bibliographical references.
About the Author
Michael Butler is Head of Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham. Robert Evans is Lecturer in German Studies, University of Birmingham.
Table of Contents
Wilfried van der Will--Michael Butler * Hadubrand's 'Frageversäumnis' in the
Hildebrandslied --Robert Evans * Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's
Willehalm and in the
Bataille d' Aliscans --Nigel Harris * Bürger and 'das schwankende Wort Volk'--David Hill * Moments of Emancipation: The Nineteenth-Century Heroine in German Literature--Ruth Whittle * 'Apollo aber schließlich die Sprache des Dionysus': harmony or hegemony in
Die Geburt der Tragödoe?--Ronald Speirs * Ernst Stadler in Oxford--Richard Sheppard * Historicity and all that: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht's Die Maßnahme --Martin Swales * 'Zwischen den Zeilen'? The Development of Dolf Sternberger's political 'Sprachkritik from the 'Wörterbuch der Regierung von Papen' to 'Ein guter Ausdruck'--Bill Dodd * The Paradox of Simultaneity: 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' in Paul Schallück's Engelbert Reineke --John Klapper * Authenticity and the 'Speaking Other': Günter Wallraff's Ganz unten as an Industrial Fiction--Rob Burns * Der parodierte Erzähler Grass: Anmerkungen zur Wirkung des Romans Die Rättin--Manfred Durzak * East German Literature and the Cold War * The Example of Erich Loest's Die Westmark Fällt weiter--Martin Kane * Was bleibt Revisted: Christa Wolf and the Fear of Transience--Michael Butler * High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public--Keith Bullilvant * Reflections on Jewish Culture in Germany since 1945--Eva Kolinsky * Visiting Frau Behrens--Brandon Taylor * Reflections on German History and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism--Günter Minnerup * The Social Dynamics of Dictatorship: Re-evaluating the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic from the 'Bottom Up'--Jonathan Grix & Charlie Jeffery * The Impact of 1968 on the SPD--William E. Paterson Wilfried van der Will--Michael Butler * Hadubrand's 'Frageversäumnis' in the
Hildebrandslied --Robert Evans * Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's
Willehalm and in the
Bataille d' Aliscans --Nigel Harris * Bürger and 'das schwankende Wort Volk'--David Hill * Moments of Emancipation: The Nineteenth-Century Heroine in German Literature--Ruth Whittle * 'Apollo aber schließlich die Sprache des Dionysus': harmony or hegemony in
Die Geburt der Tragödoe?--Ronald Speirs * Ernst Stadler in Oxford--Richard Sheppard * Historicity and all that: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht's Die Maßnahme --Martin Swales * 'Zwischen den Zeilen'? The Development of Dolf Sternberger's political 'Sprachkritik from the 'Wörterbuch der Regierung von Papen' to 'Ein guter Ausdruck'--Bill Dodd * The Paradox of Simultaneity: 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' in Paul Schallück's Engelbert Reineke --John Klapper * Authenticity and the 'Speaking Other': Günter Wallraff's Ganz unten as an Industrial Fiction--Rob Burns * Der parodierte Erzähler Grass: Anmerkungen zur Wirkung des Romans Die Rättin--Manfred Durzak * East German Literature and the Cold War * The Example of Erich Loest's Die Westmark Fällt weiter--Martin Kane * Was bleibt Revisted: Christa Wolf and the Fear of Transience--Michael Butler * High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public--Keith Bullilvant * Reflections on Jewish Culture in Germany since 1945--Eva Kolinsky * Visiting Frau Behrens--Brandon Taylor * Reflections on German History and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism--Günter Minnerup * The Social Dynamics of Dictatorship: Re-evaluating the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic from the 'Bottom Up'--Jonathan Grix & Charlie Jeffery * The Impact of 1968 on the SPD--William E. Paterson