German Pop Literature : : A Companion / / ed. by Margaret McCarthy.

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Companions to Contemporary German Culture , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (303 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Historical Roots and Official Stories
  • An Alternative History of Pop
  • Under Construction: Andreas Neumeister’s Pop Modern Historiographies
  • Section 2: Alternative Voices and Vantage Points
  • The Pop-Nostalgia of Sven Regener and Leander Haußmann
  • Pop-Cultural Camera Interventions: Kanak TV
  • Section 3: Pop and Gender
  • Bodily Harm: Pop Masculinity in Benjamin Lebert’s Crazy and Der Vogel ist ein Rabe
  • ‘There’s No Lobby for Girls in Pop’: Writing the Performative Popfeminist Subject
  • Generation Golf Meets Zonenkinder: Gender, (N)ostalgia and the Berlin Republic
  • Section 4: Pop in the New Millennium
  • The Party’s Over: PeterLicht and the End of Capitalism
  • Fear of the Queer? On Homosexuality, Masculinity and the Auratic in Christian Kracht’s Anti-Pop Pop Novels
  • Pop Eats Itself: Crisis Discourse, the Literary Market and Pop Performance in Joachim Lottmann’s Novels
  • Pop vs. Plagiarism: Popliterary Intertextuality, Author Performance and the Disappearance of Originality in Helene Hegemann
  • Pop Literature: A Bibliography
  • Index