The meaning of culture : German studies in the 21st century / edited by Martin Kagel and Laura Tate Kagel.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1. Aufl.
Published/​Created
[Hannover] : Wehrhahn, 2009.
Description
272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Notes
    "Based on papers given at a German studies conference held on the University of Georgia campus in spring 2008."-- P. [7].
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographic references (p. [260]-272).
    Contents
    • Disciplinarity and the object of culture : some remarks on the state of American Germanistik / Michael W. Jennings
    • The culture of "culture" : the paradox of primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften / Katherine Arens
    • Affirmative culture from Marcuse to Moritz / Matt Erlin
    • How get into Valhalla : the cultural meaning of musical greatness in nineteenth-century Germany / Celia Applegate
    • Reflections on marginality, German-Jewish literature, and the study of popular culture / Jonathan M. Hess
    • Behind closed doors : comparing cultures of erotic space / Simon Richter
    • Edgar Wallace goes east : location of genre and German identities in Joachim Hasler's Fog / Stefan Soldovieri
    • "I am interested in the truths in-between, not the simple truth" : in conversation with German director Andreas Dresen / Christine Haase, Martin Kagel
    • Claiming blackness in Germany / Sara Lennox
    • Cultures of violence in the new German street / Patricia Anne Simpson
    • Four stories / Dilek Güngör
    • Transnational literature, transnational studies / statements by Celia Applegate, Dilek Güngör, and Sara Lennox
    • Looking good with Kafka / Rembert Hüser.
    ISBN
    • 9783865251220
    • 3865251226
    LCCN
    2009674437
    OCLC
    492093159
    RCP
    N - S
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