Detectives, dystopias, and poplit : studies in modern German genre fiction / edited by Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, and Vibeke Rützou Petersen.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
vi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction-closing a Bildungslücke: genre fiction and why it is important / Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, and Vibeke Rützou Petersen
    • German science fiction: its formative works and its postwar uses of the Holocaust / Vibeke Rützou Petersen
    • A future history out of time: the historical context of Döblin's expressionist dystopian experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten / Evan Torner
    • Eco-Eschbach: sustainability in the science fiction of Andreas Eschbach / Sonja Fritzsche
    • Murder in the Weimar Republic: prejudice, politics, and the popular in the socialist crime fiction of Hermynia zur Mühlen / Ailsa Wallace
    • The imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the cultural politics of detective fiction in West Germany / Ray Cannoy
    • Justice and genre: the Krimi as a site of memory in contemporary Germany / Bruce B. Campbell
    • Detecting identity: reading the clues in German language crime fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest / Kerry Dunne
    • The pedagogy of pulp: liberated sexuality and its consequences through the eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer / Adam R. King
    • The Kränzchen library and the creation of teenage identity / Maureen O. Gallagher
    • Close the border, mind the gap: pop misogyny and social critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland / Molly Knight.
    ISBN
    • 9781571135933 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
    • 1571135936 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
    LCCN
    2014014721
    OCLC
    869852795
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