Heroes and heroism in German culture : : essays in honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000 / / edited by Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley.
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...
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Superior document: | Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 145 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.