Bruce Campbell / Guenther-Pal / Petersen Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit

Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-329-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 153, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce Campbell, Bruce

Guenther-Pal, Alison

Petersen, Vibeke Rützou

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke - Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important
German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust
A Future History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten
Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach
Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen
The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany
Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany
Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest
The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences Through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity
Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index