Contemplating violence : critical studies in modern German culture / / edited by Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk.
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...
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Superior document: | Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 79, 2011 |
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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. |
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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.