UID:
almafu_9961004251802883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 292 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-329-2
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory. Some of the most exciting research and teaching in the field of German Studies is being done on "genre fiction," including detective fiction, science fiction, and what is often called "poplit," to name but a few. Such non-canonical literature has long been marginalized by the German tradition of Bildung and the disciplinary practice of German literary studies (Germanistik). Even today, when the examination of non-canonical texts is well established and uncontroversial in other academic contexts, such texts remain understudied in German. And yet, the trend toward "German Studies" and "cultural studies" approaches within the field has raised considerable interest in theanalysis of genre fiction, resulting in both a great deal of new scholarship and a range of new courses. This first broad treatment of German genre fiction brings together innovative new scholarship, foregrounding themes of gender, environmentalism, and memory. It is an ideal companion to research and teaching. Written in accessible English, it speaks to a wide variety of disciplines beyond German Studies. Contributors: Bruce B. Campbell, Ray Canoy, Kerry Dunne, Sonja Fritzsche, Maureen O. Gallagher, Adam R. King, Molly Knight, Vibeke RuÌtzou Petersen, Evan Torner, and Ailsa Wallace. Bruce B. Campbell is Associate Professor of German Studies at the College ofWilliam and Mary. Alison Guenther-Pal is Assistant Professor of German and Film Studies at Lawrence University. Vibeke RuÌtzou Petersen is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at Drake University.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023).
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Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke-Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important; Part I. Science Fiction and Dystopia; 1: German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust; 2: A Future-History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten; 3: Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach; Part II. Detection and Crime
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4: Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen5: The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany; 6: Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany; 7: Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest; Part III. Versions of the "I": Pop Literatures on the Way to the Self
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8: The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer9: The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity; 10: Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland; Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-09462-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-593-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782043294
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782043294/type/BOOK
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