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  • Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction

    From the Cold War to Brexit

    Series series New Critical Humanities
    Through a diffractive reading of seven English novels, Daniela Keller redefines the deeply intertwined and continuously developing relationship between England and Germany.The relationship between England and Germany has fluctuated between friendship and animosity on both sides throughout the centuries and Brexit has driven another wedge between the two countries. This study shows how writers have ... Read more

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  • New Materialist Literary Theory

    Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

    Series series New Critical Humanities
    This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist ... Read more

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  • Changes of the welfare state in the US and Germany. The notion "citizenship" and the reactions in public

    Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: A, San Diego State University (Sociology), language: English, abstract: In both Germany and the United States, Social Security matters declined in the last decade, be it the money for unemployed people, for pensioners or the tuition for students. In this paper, it should be ... Read more

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