Edinburgh German Yearbook 3: Contested Legacies: Constructions of Cultural Heritage in the GDR

ISBN 10: 1571133623 / ISBN 13: 9781571133625

Editore: Camden House, 2009

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• Titolo: Edinburgh German Yearbook 3: Contested Legacies: Constructions of Cultural Heritage in the GDR
• Editore: Camden House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1571133623
• ISBN 13: 9781571133625
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Fresh perspectives on the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, exploring the nation's dialogue with the German past. Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh German Yearbook encourages and disseminates lively and open discussion of themes pertinent to German Studies, viewed from all angles but with particular interest in problems arising out of politics and history. No other yearbook covers the entire field while addressing a focused theme in each issue. Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, volume 3 re-directs current debates on memory and tradition, opening up fresh perspectives on the cultural history of the GDR and exploring how the nation's cultural discourses entered into a productive but often problematic dialogue with the values of the past and with the German cultural inheritance. Topics include the compositional engagement with musical heritage; industrial design and cultural politics; the establishment of antifascist monuments and their use as sites of resistance; constructions of a cultural heritage in architecture; the influence of cultural politics on literary scholarship; continuities and breaks with tradition in visualand literary culture; and engagement with the past in the works of Konrad Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, and Anna Seghers. Contributors: Leonie Beiersdorf, Julian Blunk, Dara Bryant, Helen Finch, Carola Hähnel-Mesnard, StacyHartman, Elaine Kelly, Heather Mathews, Katharina Pfützner, Matthew Philpotts, Larson Powell, Tim Reiß, Marianne Schwarz-Scherer, Laura Silverberg. Matthew Philpotts is Lecturer in German at the University of Manchester, and Sabine Rolle is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Informazioni sugli autori

HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds.

Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City.