Landmarks in German Women's Writing

Landmarks in German Women's Writing
Title Landmarks in German Women's Writing PDF eBook
Author Hilary Brown
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 220
Release 2007
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9783039103010

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This volume focuses on twelve women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day who have made a major contribution to German literature. The essays place the writers in the context of their period and examine how their position as women affected what they wrote and the reception of their texts.

German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives

German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives
Title German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives PDF eBook
Author Carola Daffner
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 278
Release 2015-07-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110378280

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In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.

Jews in Business and Their Representation in German Literature, 1827-1934

Jews in Business and Their Representation in German Literature, 1827-1934
Title Jews in Business and Their Representation in German Literature, 1827-1934 PDF eBook
Author John Ward
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 268
Release 2010
Genre Antisemitism in literature
ISBN 9783034301268

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The emancipation of Jews that commenced in Germany in the early 19th century pushed many Jews into urban commerce, industries, and intellectual professions. The ongoing modernization and the Jewish prominence in business brought about an anti-Jewish reaction. Jews were seen as the incarnation of the new materialistic "Zeitgeist", dishonest merchants pursuing non-German business practices, and usurpers of economic power. The Jews represented an alien, unwanted economic system. The backlash against the Jewish businessman was reflected in contemporary literature, from Wilhelm Hauff's "Jud Süß" (1827) to the Nazi novel "Shylock unter Bauern" by Felix Nabor (1934). Examines the representation of the Jewish businessman in German literature, in both antisemitic works and apologetic ones. Two "schools of thought" can be discerned in these writings: that the Jews, including the businessmen, can be corrected and assimilated into the German nation (e.g. in Freytag's "Soll und Haben", 1855); and the racist and eliminationist conception of the Jews as unassimilable and inherently detrimental aliens who have to be removed from the body of the nation (as in Wilhelm von Polenz's "Der Büttnerbauer", 1895), with Heinrich Mann's anti-Jewish writings somewhere in between. Discusses also the ambivalent stance of Theodor Fontane. Dwells on two "cautionary tales" written by Jewish authors and addressed to the Jews: the novel "Jud Süß" by Feuchtwanger (1925) and the play "Jud Süß" by Paul Kornfeld (1929), as well as responses to antisemitism addressed to a general audience: "Der neue Ahasver" by Fritz Mauthner (1881), "René Richter" by Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel (1906), and Hermann Bahr's "Die Rotte Korahs" (1919), a philosemitic non-Jewish response.

Landmarks in the German Novel

Landmarks in the German Novel
Title Landmarks in the German Novel PDF eBook
Author Peter Hutchinson
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 178
Release 2007
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9783039115662

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The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more recondite, such as Hubert Fichte's Detlevs Imitationen «Grünspan», one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these is by a clearly 'West' German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR (Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann, Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and Özdamar). Virtually all these novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least uncomfortable, subject-matter. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

EMILY BRONTE AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM

EMILY BRONTE AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM
Title EMILY BRONTE AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM PDF eBook
Author MAGGIE ALLEN
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 208
Release 2019-04-16
Genre Reference
ISBN 0244777616

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A useful reference guide for anyone studying Emily Bronte or German Romanticism.

Writing the Self, Creating Community

Writing the Self, Creating Community
Title Writing the Self, Creating Community PDF eBook
Author Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher Women and Gender in German Stu
Pages 319
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 1640140786

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This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.

Voices of Rebellion

Voices of Rebellion
Title Voices of Rebellion PDF eBook
Author Ruth Whittle
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 216
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9783039103225

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The German Revolution of 1848-49 offered a significant literary opportunity for all those interested in politics in general and the progress of women in society in particular. This book explores the work of a number of women who took up the challenge of breaking into the decidedly male preserve of political writing in this period. The focus is on women with very different concerns: Malwida von Meysenbug, the aristocrat who supported the democratic cause, the assimilated Jew Fanny Lewald; the housewife, musician, composer and teacher Johanna Kinkel; and the radical feminist Louise Aston. The work examines the strategies these women employed to negotiate potentially explosive issues such as the politics of the day, class, religion and gender, as well as the way traditional images like the father-child relationship are exploited to express new thoughts. Using a combination of close textual reading and thematically based analysis the book illuminates the authors' individual works and explores underlying issues that are common to all.