Heroes and heroism in German culture : : essays in honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000 / / edited by Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley.

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 145
• TeilnehmendeR: Brockmann, Stephen,; Steakley, James D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 145.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

As Brecht's Galileo observed, a country which needs heroes is unfortunate indeed - words which suggest that a society's need for heroes is always a function of its shortcomings. By examining the role that heroes and heroism have played in German literature and culture over the past two cen...

Table of Contents

• Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Jost HERMAND: Victory for the Just Cause! Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Cäcilia Tschudi as a Valkyrie (1813). Kirsten BELGUM: Tracking the Liberal Hero in the Nineteenth Century. Response by Gabrielle Bersier. Peter MORRIS-KEITEL: Of No Commercial Value. The Green Hero Curt Grottewitz (1866-1905). Response by Carolyn O. Becker. Carol POORE: From Problem Child to Human Being: Positive Representations of People with Physical Disabilities in Germany. Response by Robert C. Holub. Stephen BROCKMANN: Heroes of the Zero Hour. Response by Alexa Larson-Thorisch. Janet SWAFFAR: Heroes and Reunification: The Resistance of Cultural Memory from Two Germanies. Response by Helen Fehervary. Karen R. ACHBERGER: "Ein Sultan, ein Wilder, ein Halbgott, ein Prinz": The Romantic Hero in Ingeborg Bachmann's Works of the 1960s. Response by Alan Lareau. James W. JONES: Whose Heroes? German AIDS Literature by Gay Men. Response by James D. Young. Evelyn TORTON BECK: Look Back in Wonder: A Reminiscence. Frank TROMMLER: Jost Hermand or the Ways of Shaping a Discipline. Jost Hermand's Ph.D Students and Their Dissertation Topics.