Author: Eric L. Santner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801481628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Eric L. Santner
Publisher:
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Donald E. Pease
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822329657
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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DIVA state of the art portrait of the field of American studies--its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the f/div

Author: Eric L. Santner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226816478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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"In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. Inverting Freud's title, Eric Santner here takes up the sexuality of theory-or, more exactly, its sex-appeal, the modes of enjoyment to be found in the kinds of critical thinking that, since the 1960s, have laid claim to that ancient word, "theory." Untying Things Together is both an intellectual history of major theoretical paradigms and a call for their reexamination and renewal in light of the "postcritical turn" away from them. Santner organizes this intellectual history autobiographically as the story of his own encounters and involvements with key theorists and theoretical projects. He thereby shows that to reduce these theoretical projects to so many exercises in a "hermeneutics of suspicion" (a move associated with certain "post-critique" authors) is to miss what is most vital, most alive, indeed life-changing about them. It is to miss the "gay science" they elaborate. Santner's explorations yield new ways of accounting for the "sublime object" of theory, the libidinal charge it carries for those susceptible to its charms"--

Author: Carl Gutierrez-Jones
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814731451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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"An immensely valuable ocntribution. As the last generation of witnesses to the Holocaust testify to its horrors, tehy must also testify to its heroes - those who risked all to safe lives. These movingly told stories restore our faith in the human spirit." --William Shirer "The mystery of the rescue phenomenon will probably always elude us. As the rescuers' narratives in this remarkable volume show, the acts of saving Jews seemed spontaneous and natural, and thus the mystery of the rescue act begins to unravel radiantly. The insights which this interdisciplinary collection of essays subtly pieces together s how in unique fashion the preconditions, or the possibilities, of individual and collective courage." --Dennis B. Klein, author of Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement A distinguished group of internationally known individuals, Jews and non-Jews, rescuers and rescued, offer their enriching first-person accounts and reflections that explore the question: Why did the Danes risk their lives to rescue the Jewish population?

Author: Sandie Byrne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198184301
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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AbbreviationsForeword, Lord GowrieIntroduction: Tony Harrison's Public Poetry, Sandie Byrne1. The Best Poet of 1961, Desmond Graham2. Tony Harrison the Playwright, Richard Eyre3. v. by Tony Harrison, or Production No. 73095, LWT Arts, Melvyn Bragg4. On Not Being Milton, Marvell, or Gray, Sandie Byrne5. Open to Experience: Structure and Exploration in Tony Harrison's Poetry, Jem Poster6. Culture and Debate, Christopher Butler7. Book Ends: Harrison's Public and Private Poetry, N.S. Thompson8. Tony Harrison and the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger9. Doomsongs: Tony Harrison and War, Rick Rylance10. The.

Author: Jonathan Bach
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231544308
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and the small to the national, the impersonal, and the large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.

Author: West Pakistan Engineering Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Paul Cooke
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110268477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies.

Author: Dominick LaCapra
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501705075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de Man's collaborationist journalism and Martin Heidegger’s Nazi past to attempts by some historians to downplay the Holocaust’s significance. A major voice in current historiographical discussions, Dominick LaCapra brings a new clarity to these issues as he examines the intersections between historical events and the theory through which we struggle to understand them.In a series of essays—three published here for the first time—LaCapra explores the problems faced by historians, critics, and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust. He considers the role of canon formation and the dynamic of revisionist historiography, as well as critically analyzing responses to the discovery of de Man’s wartime writings. He also discusses Heidegger’s involvement with National Socialism, and he sheds light on postmodernist obsessions with such concepts as loss, agora, dispossession, deferred meaning, and the sublime. Throughout, LaCapra demonstrates that psychoanalysis is not merely a psychology of the individual but that its concepts have sociocultural dimensions and can help us perceive the relationship between the present and the past. Many of our efforts to comprehend the Holocaust, he shows, continue to suffer from the traumatizing effects of its events and require a "working through" of that trauma if we are to gain a more profound understanding of the meaning of the Holocaust.