Author: Alan G. Ng
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Lyrikabend of 11 December 1962
Author: Alan G. Ng
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Envisioning Socialism
Author: Heather Gumbert
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472900951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn’t compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472900951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn’t compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Brecht Newsletter
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Franz Fühmann: Innovation and Authenticity
Author: Dennis Tate
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004654623
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the life and works of Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) to be published in English. It provides a complete reassessment of his importance as a prose-writer, informed by the extensive corpus of Fühmann's writing which has only appeared posthumously or is now accessible in the archives of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin. Dennis Tate argues that, from the middle 1950s onwards, Fühmann's prose writing is both stylistically innovative and committed to the authentic representation of his experience, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom that little writing of international significance could be produced in the ideological context of the GDR until Honecker introduced his `no taboos' cultural policy in 1971. Fühmann's widely praised later texts (ranging from the autobiographical Zweiundzwanzig Tage oder Die Hälfte des Lebens and Vor Feuerschlünden to mythical and satirical short stories such as `Marsyas' and `Drei nackte Männer') can now be seen as the culmination of an impressive creative development rather than as the result of a late conversion to literary truthfulness. The volume will be of interest to students and teachers of post-1945 German literature as well as to general readers aware of the vitality of Central European culture throughout the period of East-West ideological division.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004654623
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of the life and works of Franz Fühmann (1922-1984) to be published in English. It provides a complete reassessment of his importance as a prose-writer, informed by the extensive corpus of Fühmann's writing which has only appeared posthumously or is now accessible in the archives of the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin. Dennis Tate argues that, from the middle 1950s onwards, Fühmann's prose writing is both stylistically innovative and committed to the authentic representation of his experience, thereby challenging the conventional wisdom that little writing of international significance could be produced in the ideological context of the GDR until Honecker introduced his `no taboos' cultural policy in 1971. Fühmann's widely praised later texts (ranging from the autobiographical Zweiundzwanzig Tage oder Die Hälfte des Lebens and Vor Feuerschlünden to mythical and satirical short stories such as `Marsyas' and `Drei nackte Männer') can now be seen as the culmination of an impressive creative development rather than as the result of a late conversion to literary truthfulness. The volume will be of interest to students and teachers of post-1945 German literature as well as to general readers aware of the vitality of Central European culture throughout the period of East-West ideological division.
Minority & Women Doctoral Directory
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Category : Minority college graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Minority college graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Culture and Society in the GDR
Author: Graham Bartram
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Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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GDR Monitor Special Series
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Category : Germany (East)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Germany (East)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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A Map of Metaphysics Zeta
Author: Myles Burnyeat
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Japanese Civilization
Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226195582
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
One of the world's leading social theorists provides a monumental synthesis of Japanese history, religion, culture, and social organization. Equipped with a thorough command of the subject, S. N. Eisenstadt focuses on the non-ideological character of Japanese civilization as well as its infinite capacity to recreate community through an ongoing past.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226195582
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
One of the world's leading social theorists provides a monumental synthesis of Japanese history, religion, culture, and social organization. Equipped with a thorough command of the subject, S. N. Eisenstadt focuses on the non-ideological character of Japanese civilization as well as its infinite capacity to recreate community through an ongoing past.