Dear WIGS members,

Camden House have generously offered a special discount to all WIGS members on the title below - the volume resulting from our 20th anniversary conference in Liverpool in 2008.

Who needs a Christmas selection box when you could have one of these?!

Rebecca

Dr Rebecca Braun
Lecturer in German Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YN
 
Tel: +44 (0)1524 592664 

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SPECIAL OFFER - 25% DISCOUNT (Offer code: 10282)

 

CULTURAL IMPACT IN THE GERMAN CONTEXT <http://www.camden-house.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13437>  

Studies in Transmission, Reception, & Influence

 

Edited by REBECCA BRAUN & LYN MARVEN

 

How does culture work in the German speaking world? 

This collection of wide ranging essays examines and employs - with the help of examples of German literature, its authors, history, film, theatre and memorial culture - the metaphor of cultural impact to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world.

 

How to gauge the impact of cultural products is an old question, but bureaucratic agendas such as the one recently implemented in the UK to measure the impact of university research (including in German Studies) are new. 

Impact is seen as confirming a cultural product's value for society - not least in the eyes of cultural funders. Yet its use as an evaluative category has been widely criticized by academics. Rather than rejecting the concept of impact, however, this volume employs it as a metaphor to reflect on issues of transmission, reception, and influence that have always underlain cultural production but have escaped systematic conceptualization. 

It seeks to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world: how writers and artists express themselves, how readers and audiences engage with the resulting products, and how academics are drawn to analyze this dynamic process. 

Formulating such questions afresh in the context of German Studies, the volume examines both contemporary cultural discourse and the way it evolves more generally. It links such topics as authorial intention, readerly reception, intertextuality, and modes of perception to less commonly studied phenomena, such as the institutional practices of funding bodies, that underpin cultural discourse.




Contributors: 

DAVID BARNETT, LAURA BRADLEY, REBECCA BRAUN, SARAH COLVIN, ANNE FUCHS, 

KATRIN KOHL, KAREN LEEDER, JÜRGEN LUH, JENNY MCKAY, BEN MORGAN, GUNTHER NICKEL, CHLOE PAVER, JOANNE SAYNER, MATTHEW PHILPOTTS, JANE WILKINSON.



Editors:

REBECCA BRAUN is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster and 

LYN MARVEN is Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool.

Contents

1          Introduction: Cultural Impact in Theory and Practice 

2          The Metaphor of Cultural Impact and the Cultural Impact of Metaphor 

3          The Bombing of Dresden and the Idea of Cultural Impact 

4          Understanding the Cultural Impact of Popular Film 

5          Cultural Impact and the Power of Myth in Popular Public Constructions of Authorship 

6          Cultural Impact as Symbolic Capital: The Case of the Elite Intellectual Field 

7          Frederick 300 in 2012: A Case Study of Institutional Management of Heritage in Germany 

8          "Art needs Bread": Supporting Literature in Germany 

9          "I've been told ... that the play is far too German": The Interplay of Institution and Dramaturgy in Shaping British Reactions to German Theater 

10        You Shall Know Them by Their Objects: Material Culture and Its Impact in Museum Displays about National Socialism 

11        Discrepant Narratives: The Impact of Trans-Border Theater Festivals on Communities at the German-Polish Border 

12        The Impact of an Unperson? Peter-Paul Zahl, Peter-Jurgen Boock,and the Cultural Impact of Prison Writing 

13        The Organic Intellectual: The Public and Political Impact of Greta Kuckhoff, 1945-1949 

14        The Politics of Cultural Impact: Michael Kohlhaas in East Berlin 

15        Ingeborg Bachmann as Poet and Myth: A Case Study in Cultural Impact 

16        Sponsoring Authorial Impact: The Case of Ingo Schulze

 

£40.00, SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £30.00, November 2010, 9781571134301, 316pp, HB, Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Camden House

 

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