Eva Kolinsky / Wilfried van der van der Will (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

Herausgegeben von Kolinsky, Eva; van der Will, Wilfried

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A definitive guide to German culture from its emergence as a nation state in 1871 until the first all-Germany post-Reunification elections in December 1990. Fundamental yet complex questions are addressed in a sensitive fashion, and historical, political, legal and social institutions are explained, as are sexual, racial and class structures and divisions.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 1999
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780521568708
• ISBN-10: 0521568706
• Artikelnr.: 09565176

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Chronology; In search of German culture: an introduction Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will; 1. The citizen and the state in modern Germany Peter Pulzer; 2. German national identity John Breuilly; 3. Elites and class structure Hans-Georg Betz; 4. Jews in German society Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Höfig; 5. Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society Eva Kolinsky; 6. Critiques of culture Andrew Bowie; 7. The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture Wilfried van der Will; 8. The development of German prose fiction Martin Swales; 9. Modern German poetry Karen Leeder; 10. German drama, theatre and dance Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley; 11. Music in modern German culture Erik Levi; 12. Modern German art Irit Rogoff; 13. Modern German architecture Iain Boyd Whyte; 14. German cinema Martin Brady and Helen Hughes; 15. The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television Holger Briel; Index.

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List of illustrations
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology
In search of German culture: an introduction Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will
1. The citizen and the state in modern Germany Peter Pulzer
2. German national identity John Breuilly
3. Elites and class structure Hans-Georg Betz
4. Jews in German society Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Höfig
5. Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society Eva Kolinsky
6. Critiques of culture Andrew Bowie
7. The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture Wilfried van der Will
8. The development of German prose fiction Martin Swales
9. Modern German poetry Karen Leeder
10. German drama, theatre and dance Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley
11. Music in modern German culture Erik Levi
12. Modern German art Irit Rogoff
13. Modern German architecture Iain Boyd Whyte
14. German cinema Martin Brady and Helen Hughes
15. The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television Holger Briel
Index.

Rezensionen

"This book is informative, topically comprehensive, well researched, and clearly written. It may serve as a useful reference work to the modern German culture scene, or it may be adopted as a text book for a course in German Culture and Civilization... Charlotte M. Craig, Germanic Notes and Reviews