Contemplating violence : critical studies in modern German culture

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Contemplating violence : critical studies in modern German culture / ed. by Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Violence in German Literature, Culture, and Inttellektual History, 1789 - 1938 (Other)
Other Authors:	Engelstein, Stefani (Editor), Niekerk, Carl (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English German
Published:	Amsterdam [u.a.] : Ed. Rodopi, 2011
Series:	Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 79
Subjects:	Deutsch Literatur Gewalt <Motiv> Geschichte 1789-1938 Kongress / Champaign <Ill., 2005>
Contents/pieces:	13 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction : Violence, Culture, Aesthetics: Germany 1789-1938

2. Sara's Pain : the French Revolution in Therese Huber's "Die Familie Seldorf" (1795-1796)

3. The Violence of the Aesthetic

4. The Negro Who Disappeared : race in Kafka's "Amerika"

5. Preserving the Bloody Remains : Legacies of Violence in Austria's Heeresgeschichtliches Museum

6. Communion at the Sign of the Wild Man

7. Constructing the Fascist Subject : Violence, Gender, and Sexuality in Ödön von Horváth's "Jugend ohne Gott"

8. The Father in Fatherland : Violent Ideology and Corporeal Paternity in Kleist

9. Montage and Violence in Weimar Culture : Kurt Schwitters' Reassembled Individuals

10. The Curse of Enthusiasm : 'William Lovell' and Modern Violence

11. From the Emancipation of the Jews to the Emancipation from the Jews : on the Rhetoric, Power and Violence of German-Jewish "Dialogue"

12. Fractured Histories : Heine's Responses to Violence and Revolution

13. Performing Violence : Joe May's "Indian Tomb"