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  • New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

    Edited by Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together ... Read more

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  • Writing the Revolution

    The Construction of "1968" in Germany

    by Ingo Cornils ...
    In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radicalre-imagination of the political and economic order and social hierarchy - have been understood as requiring a "long march." While the movement has been judged at best a ... Read more

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  • Beyond Tomorrow

    German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries

    by Ingo Cornils ...
    Since its beginnings, German Science Fiction (or SF) has engaged with social change and technological progress, often drawing from utopian thought. The writer Kurd Laßwitz challenged the authoritarian Wilhelmine order; later, filmdirector Fritz Lang provided a searing critique of Weimar society. Meanwhile utopian thinkers like Ernst Bloch and Herbert Marcuse insisted on the possibility of hope, ... Read more

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  • A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse

    Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he ... Read more

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  • Alternative Worlds

    Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900

    Edited by Ricarda Vidal, Ingo Cornils ...
    Series Book 22 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection presents a number of alternative worlds that were conceived over the course of the last century. While change at the macro level was the focus of most of the ideological struggles of the twentieth century, the real impetus for ... Read more

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    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
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  • Rereading East Germany

    The Literature and Film of the GDR

    Edited by Karen Leeder ...
    This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the ... Read more

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  • Sense of Place and Sense of Planet

    The Environmental Imagination of the Global

    Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ... Read more

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  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series New Perspectives in German Political Studies
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

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  • Getting History Right

    East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

    How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and ... Read more

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  • Tatort Germany

    The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

    Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

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  • Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater

    The Politics of Making the Audience Work

    by Michael Wood ...
    The East German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Müller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study ... Read more

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