Contemplating violence : critical studies in modern German culture / / edited by Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk.

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 79, 2011
• TeilnehmendeR: Engelstein, Sefani.; Niekerk, Carl.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 79, 2011.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Notes: Based on the conference "Violence in German literature, culture, and intellectual history, 1789-1938," at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Oct. 14-16, 2005.

This volume illuminates the vexed treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between two crucial, and radically different, violent outbreaks: the French Revolution, and the Holocaust and Second World War. The contributions undermine the notion of violence as an intermittent or random vis...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Editors Contemplating Violence
• Introduction. Violence, Culture, Aesthetics: Germany 1789–1938 / Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk
• Sara’s Pain: The French Revolution in Therese Huber’s Die Familie Seldorf (1795–1796) / Stephanie M. Hilger
• The Father in Fatherland: Violent Ideology and Corporeal Paternity in Kleist / Stefani Engelstein
• Fractured Histories: Heine’s Responses to Violence and Revolution / Jeffrey Grossman
• The Curse of Enthusiasm: William Lovell and Modern Violence / Laurie Johnson
• Communion at the Sign of the Wild Man / Lynne Tatlock
• Constructing the Fascist Subject: Violence, Gender, and Sexuality in Ödön von Horváth’s Jugend ohne Gott / Carl Niekerk
• From the Emancipation of the Jews to the Emancipation from the Jews: On the Rhetoric, Power and Violence of German-Jewish “Dialogue” / Barbara Fischer
• The Negro Who Disappeared: Race in Kafka’s Amerika / Mark Christian Thompson
• Performing Violence: Joe May’s Indian Tomb (1921) / Claudia Breger
• The Violence of the Aesthetic / Lutz Koepnick
• Montage and Violence in Weimar Culture: Kurt Schwitters’ Reassembled Individuals / Patrizia McBride
• Preserving the Bloody Remains: Legacies of Violence in Austria’s Heeresgeschichtliches Museum / Peter M. McIsaac
• Index / Editors Contemplating Violence.