Susan G. Figge Reworking the German Past (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Reworking the German PastCondition: NewSubtitle: Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular CultureISBN-10: 1571135650EAN: 9781571135650ISBN: 9781571135650Publisher: Camden House IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/01/2013Description: Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past.Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has been a surge of interest in adaptation of literary works in recent years. Numerousvolumes have theorized, chronicled, or analyzed adaptations from novel to film, asking how and why adaptations are undertaken and what happens when a text is adapted in a particular historical context. With its focus on adaptationof twentieth-century German texts not only from one medium to another but also from one cultural moment to another, the present collection resides at the intersection of these two areas of inquiry. The ten essays treat a varietyof media. Each considers the way in which a particular adaptation alters a story - or history - for a subsequent audience, taking into account the changing context in which the retelling takes place and the evolution of cultural strategies for coming to terms with the past. The resulting case studies find in the retellings potentially corrective versions of the stories for changing times. The volume makes the case that adaptation studies are particularly well suited for tracing Germany's obsessive cultural engagement with its twentieth-century history. Contributors: Elizabeth Baer, Rachel Epp Buller, Maria Euchner, Richard C. Figge, Susan G. Figge, Mareike Hermann, LindaHutcheon, Irene Lazda, Cary Nathenson, Thomas Sebastian, Sunka Simon, Jenifer K. Ward. Susan G. Figge is Professor of German Emeritus at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and Jenifer K. Ward is Associate Provost, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Susan G. Figge (Edited by), Jenifer K. Ward (Edited by), Cary Nathenson (Contributions by), Elizabeth R. Baer (Contributions by), Irene Lazda (Contributions by), Jenifer K. Ward (Contributions by), Linda Hutcheon (Contributions by), Mareike Herrmann (Contributions by), Maria Euchner (Contributions by), Rachel Epp Buller (Contributions by), Richard Figge (Contributions by), Sunka Simon (Contributions by), Susan G. Figge (Contributions by), Thomas Sebastian (Contributions by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and CultureItem Weight: 482gAuthor: Susan G. FiggeRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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