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    Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination (2010)
    Ithaca, NY :Cornell University Press :
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    almahu_9949341597002882
    Format: 1 online resource (256 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 0-8014-6006-9
    Series Statement: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
    Content: At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Introduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding. , Issued also in print. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-52259-6
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8014-7653-4
    Language: English
    Subjects: German Studies
    RVK:
    GN 1522
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801460067
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  • 2
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    Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination (2011)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Cornell University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_1832323889
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p.)
    ISBN: 9780801460067
    Content: At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture
    Note: English
    Language: Undetermined
    URL: kostenfrei
    URL: kostenfrei
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  • 3
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    Legal tender : love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination (2010)
    Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press | Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Library
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    UID:
    gbv_1670101983
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780801460067 , 0801460069
    Series Statement: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
    Content: At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-216. - Register
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801476532
    Additional Edition: Elektronische Reproduktion von Urang, John Griffith, 1975 - Legal tender Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press [u.a.], 2010 ISBN 0801476534
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801476532
    Language: English
    Subjects: German Studies
    RVK:
    GN 1522
    RVK:
    GN 1701
    Keywords: Deutschland ; Prosa ; Film ; Romantische Liebe ; Geschichte
    DOI: 10.1353/book.24499
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    URL: kostenfrei
    Author information: Urang, John Griffith 1975-
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  • 4
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    Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination (2010)
    Ithaca, N.Y. :Cornell University Press,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9958352479602883
    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9780801460067
    Series Statement: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Content: At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office.But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere.Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Eros and Exchange -- , 1. Wares of Love: Socialist Romance and the Commodity -- , 2. Love, Labor, Loss: Modes of Romance in the East German Novel of Arrival -- , 3. Corrective Affinities: Love, Class, and the Propagation of Socialism -- , 4. W(h)ither Eros? Gender Trouble in the GDR, 1975–1989 -- , 5. Eye Contact: Surveillance, Perversion, and the Last Days of the GDR -- , Coda: A Chameleon Wedding -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.7591/9780801460067
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801460067
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