Her transnational analysis provides the groundwork for future studies of links between imperialism and genocide, links among genocides, and the devastating impact of the genocidal gaze.
Shen's study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction After the Second World War
by Jaimey Fisher
Price: $52.99
ISBN: 9780814333297
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
392 Pages
With these interdisciplinary approaches and timely interventions, Disciplining Germany will find a diverse readership, including upper-division and graduate courses in German studies and German history as well as those general readers interested in Nazi Germany, cultural history, film and literary studies, youth culture, American studies, and post-conflict and occupational situations.
Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung
by Eric Downing
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9780814333013
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
384 Pages
Scholars, students, and teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful volume.
Building on previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history, The Spell of Italy offers compelling new ways of understanding Germany’s fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its troubled political history of the twentieth century.
History, Fiction, and Germany provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of German studies, as well as anyone interested in history and the articulation of national identity.
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
by Richard T. Gray
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9780814331798
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: March 2004
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
510 Pages
A rich exploration of German culture, About Face offers fresh insight into the intellectual climate that allowed the dangerous thinking of National Socialism to take hold.
What emerges is a "Never-Ending Storyof oft-repeated obsessions, overlapping generic forms, omnipresent or subtle nods to Hollywood, and myriad political concerns irreducible to a unified message or aesthetic form—all bearing witness to the vibrancy of German culture.
Readers interested in modem German literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, comparative literature, Weimar culture, and fascism will welcome this book.
This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.
With references that range from set architecture to Christmas celebrations, from the poetry of Rilke to chamber music, from the introduction of sound to Macy’s parades, and from an "urban unconsciousto a "cinematic sublime,Peripheral Visions is a richly nuanced collection that will be of lasting interest to students and scholars of film and German cultural studies.
German Cinema is the first English-language volume to provide a comprehensive historical overview of German film from the silent era to the present, as well as close readings of individual films.
A Study of German National Character Through Folklore
by Alan Dundes
Price: $26.99
ISBN: 9780814320389
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 1989
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
192 Pages
Dundes is of the opinion that the use of folkloristic data minimizes subjective bias in the study of national character, since unedited or uncensored, it constitutes a unique way of looking at a culture from the inside-out rather than from the outside-in, the more typical situation of an outside observer trying to understand a foreign culture.
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