Jill Suzanne Smith

The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin (eBook, ePUB)

Twenty-First-Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the recent proliferation of cultural representations of Weimar Berlin in the German-speaking world, probing the connections between historical and contemporary texts, their contexts, and their creators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cokesbury
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805433910
• Artikelnr.: 72334823

Autorenporträt

JILL SUZANNE SMITH is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Decadence and Danger:
The Anglo-American View of Weimar Berlin 2. Seduced by Poetry: Julia
Franck's Die Mittagsfrau (2007) Revives Else Lasker-Schüler 3. Making
Mischief, Making Movies: Christian Kracht's Die Toten (2016) Revives Lotte
Eisner and Siegfried Kracauer 4. Metropolitan Temptations: Volker
Kutscher's Der nasse Fisch (2007) Revives Joe May's Asphalt (1929) 5. Lotte
at the Movies: The Makers of Babylon Berlin (2017) Revive Menschen am
Sonntag (1930) Conclusion: Weimar Berlin, Back with a Vengeance
Bibliography Index