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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Christian Emden / David Midgley (eds.)
CULTURAL MEMORY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING
WORLD SINCE 1500
Papers from the Conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002.
Volume 1
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2004.
316 pp. Cultural History and Literary Imagination. Vol. 1 Edited by
Christian Emden and David Midgley
ISBN 3-03910-160-9 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6970-X pb.
sFr. 80.00 / EUR* 55.00 / EUR** 51.40 / £ 36.00 / US-$ 50.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
This is the first of three volumes based on papers given at the
conference 'The Fragile Tradition: The German Cultural Imagination
Since 1500' in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of
current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination
of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period.
This volume highlights the ways in which cultural memory and historical
consciousness have been shaped by experiences of discontinuity,
focusing particularly on the reception of the Reformation, the literary
and ideological heritage of the Enlightenment, and the representation
of war, the Holocaust, and the reunification of Germany in contemporary
literature and museum culture.
Contents: David Midgley/Christian J. Emden: Introduction - Aleida
Assmann: Four Formats of Memory: From Individual to Collective
Constructions of the Past - Christian J. Emden: History, Memory, and
the Invention of Antiquity: Notes on the 'Classical Tradition' - Ortrud
Gutjahr: Literary Modernism and the Tradition of Breaking Tradition -
Marc Oliver Huber: Memoria in Zeiten des Zeitenbruchs: Nietzsches
"Zweite Unzeitgemäße Betrachtung" als Indikator einer Gedächtniskrise -
Susanne Rau: Reformation, Time, and History: The Construction of
(Dis)Continuities in the Historiography of the Reformation in the Early
Modern Period - Wilhelm Ribhegge: German or European Identity? Luther
and Erasmus in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Cultural
History and Historiography - Stefan Busch: Ideals and Life in German
Literature of the Late Enlightenment Period: The Grotesque as "reductio
ad absurdum" of Providentialism - Laura Benzi: Die Entstehung der Lyrik
in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts und die spätaufklärerische
Affektenlehre - Ritchie Robertson: Joseph II in Cultural Memory -
Kristin Veel: Topographies of Memory: Walter Benjamin and Daniel
Libeskind - Silke Arnold-de Simine: Theme Park GDR? The
Aestheticization of Memory in post-"Wende" Museums, Literature and Film
- Karen Leeder: 'rhythmische historia': Contemporary Poems of the First
World War by Thomas Kling and Raoul Schrott.
The Editors: Christian Emden studied comparative and European
literature and philosophy at the Universities of Konstanz and Cambridge
(PhD 2000), and is now Assistant Professor of German at Rice
University, Houston. He was a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, from 2000 to 2003. He is the author of "Nietzsche on
Language, Consciousness, and the Body", forthcoming in 2004, and is now
investigating notions of «classical antiquity» in 19th century German
scholarship and literature and the emergence of "historische
Kulturwissenschaft" in the early 20th century.
David Midgley grew up in London and studied at Oxford (DPhil 1975). He
was a Humboldt Scholar in 1979, and has been a University Lecturer in
German and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1980. He has
published widely on German literary modernism, and his latest book,
"Writing Weimar" (2000), is a thorough study of the literature of the
Weimar Republic in relation to its social and cultural context.
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