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14 results in Edinburgh German Yearbook

Edinburgh German Yearbook 2
  • Masculinity and German Culture
  • Edited by Sarah Colvin, Peter Davies
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 October 2008
  • This volume focuses on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of 'masculinity' in German culture from medieval times to the present.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 4

Edinburgh German Yearbook 3
  • Contested Legacies: Constructions of Cultural Heritage in the GDR
  • Edited by Matthew Philpotts, Sabine Rolle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 February 2023
    Print publication:
    01 October 2009
  • Fresh perspectives on the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic, exploring the nation's dialogue with the German past.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 8
  • New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah
  • Edited by Peter Davies, Andrea Hammel
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    28 November 2014
  • New perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 5
  • Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity
  • Edited by Laura Bradley, Karen Leeder
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 February 2023
    Print publication:
    17 October 2011
  • Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 15
  • Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • Edited by Jenny Watson, Michel Mallet, Hanna Schumacher
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2023
    Print publication:
    20 September 2022
  • Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern 'other' in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 13
  • Music in German Politics/Politics in German Music
  • Edited by Siobhán Donovan, Maria Euchner
  • General editor Frauke Matthes
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    11 January 2022
  • This book deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 9
  • Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture
  • Edited by Dora Osborne
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2015
  • In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders this material; in its broadest sense, it might refer to something public (records housed in a municipal building), or something private (photographs in afamily album). The material and documentary qualities of the archive confer on it an authenticating function attributed only cautiously to memory, but theories of the archive have questioned the status of material, documentary vestiges of the past. Memory and the archive are inextricably linked, but how does this affect the mediation of the past? This volume explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945. Contributions approach this topic from a range of perspectives (film, visual culture, urban culture, digital technology, as well as literature) and offer illuminating studies of Harun Farocki, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas Demand, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jürgen Fuchs, Stefan Wolter, and Sasa Stanisic.

    Contributors: Priyanka Basu, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Regine Criser, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Diana Hitzke and Charlton Payne, Caitríona Leahy, Dora Osborne, Annie Ring, Lizzie Stewart, Simon Ward.

    Dora Osborne is Lecturer in German at Durham University.

Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today

Edinburgh German Yearbook 12
  • Repopulating the Eighteenth Century: Second-Tier Writing in the German Enlightenment
  • Edited by Michael Wood, Johannes Birgfeld
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 June 2019
    Print publication:
    29 November 2018
  • In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume re-populates "the German Enlightenment."

Edinburgh German Yearbook 10
  • Queering German Culture
  • Edited by Leanne Dawson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 July 2018
    Print publication:
    01 May 2018
  • From gay and lesbian political activism during the 1960s and 70s through the 1980s queer movement inspired by the AIDS crisis to the recent push towards normalization for same-sex couples via registered partnerships and adoption rights, LGBT issues have been moving steadily into the political and cultural mainstream of the German-speaking lands. A host of German LGBT culture has emerged in recent years, including films and literary works. Queerness has also taken hold within the academy of the German-speaking lands. The present volume includes contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBT individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 7
  • Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Emily Jeremiah, Frauke Matthes
  • With contributions by Monika Albrecht , Angelika Baier , David N. Coury , Anna Ertel , Tilmann Köppe , Alasdair King , Aine McMurtry , Gillian Pye and Kate Roy
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    01 November 2013
  • There has been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the other"in its various manifestations. And in the German context especially, the past and its representation offer ongoing moral challenges. These ethical concerns have found their way into recent German-language literature and culture in texts that deal with history and memory (Timm, Petzold, Schoch, Strubel); materiality (Krau, Overath); gender (Berg, Schneider); age and generation (Moster, Pehnt, Schalansky); religion, especially Islam (Senocak, Kermani, Ruete); and nomadism (Tawada). The relationship between self and other; the connection between particular and general; the personal and political consequences of individuals' actions; and the potential, and danger, of representation itself are issues that are vital to the shaping of our future ethical landscapes, as this volume demonstrates. Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Angelika Baier, David N. Coury, Anna Ertel & Tilmann Köppe, Emily Jeremiah, Alasdair King, Frauke Matthes, Aine McMurtry, Gillian Pye, Kate Roy. Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London. Frauke Matthes is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Mary Cosgrove, Anna Richards
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    03 December 2012
  • Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the 'Edinburgh German Yearbook' is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field. Focusing on 'Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture,' volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy in German-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributions explore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. Contributors: Per Brandt, Peter Damrau, Kristian Donko, Svenja Frank, Jens Hobus, Stephen Joy, Johannes D. Kaminski, Franziska Meyer, Richard Millington, Karin S. Wozonig. Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 1
  • Cultural Exchange in German Literature
  • Edited by Eleoma Joshua, Robert Vilain
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    02 October 2007
  • The 'Edinburgh German Yearbook' is devoted to German Studies in an international context. It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each volume is based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers from the highly successful conference 'Kennst du das Land: Cultural Exchange in German Literature,' held in Edinburgh in December 2006, supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a notorious role in Germany's history. It is nonetheless acknowledged that German literature has been significantly influenced by non-German sources, and the search for what is unique about Germany and German literature must incorporate an awareness of these. This volume provides a wide-ranging investigation into how German literature from the 18th century to the present day reflects interactions between German and non-German cultures. Alongside theoretical and historical reflections on the nature of cultural exchange, contributions explore literary reception, the boundaries of and movement between cultures, and Germany's literary, political, cultural, and religious relations with both near neighbors and far-flung cultural interlocutors. CONTRIBUTORS: CHRISTIAN MOSER, BIRGIT TAUTZ, SILVIA HORSCH, ELEOMA JOSHUA, GAUTI KRISTMANNSSON, SABINE WILKE, DANIELA KRÄMER, JON HUGHES, THOMAS MARTINEC, MARGARET LITTLER, LYN MARVEN, DIRK GöTTSCHE, SUSANNE KORD. Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German at Edinburgh University. Robert Vilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. The journal's General Editor is Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at Edinburgh University.