Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001: 238 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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ISBN 10: 1640142169 / ISBN 13: 9781640142169

Edité par Camden House, 2024

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Synopsis :

Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture challenging - it can be difficult to locate and explore the significance of violence in and for the postwar German states critically. This volume approaches that challenge through the critical analysis of "violence elsewhere," that is, constructions of violence in distant times and places. The volume considers works from East, West, and unified Germany which imagine violence taking place around the world, as well as in the respective "other" German state and in the German past.

À propos des auteurs: CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK.

MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK.

SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment, interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts, as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House, 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters, entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist, Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012), and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book, Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019), investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film, but also literature, music, and the visual arts in post-war cinema.

KATHERINE BRUCE is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant ...
Éditeur : Camden House
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New