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Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 294 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Figge / Ward

Reworking the German Past

Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-565-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 294 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

ISBN: 978-1-57113-565-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer


Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past.

Coming to terms with the past has been a preoccupation within German culture and German Studies since the Second World War. In addition, there has been a surge of interest in adaptation of literary works in recent years. Numerousvolumes have theorized, chronicled, or analyzed adaptations from novel to film, asking how and why adaptations are undertaken and what happens when a text is adapted in a particular historical context. With its focus on adaptationof twentieth-century German texts not only from one medium to another but also from one cultural moment to another, the present collection resides at the intersection of these two areas of inquiry. The ten essays treat a varietyof media. Each considers the way in which a particular adaptation alters a story - or history - for a subsequent audience, taking into account the changing context in which the retelling takes place and the evolution of cultural strategies for coming to terms with the past. The resulting case studies find in the retellings potentially corrective versions of the stories for changing times. The volume makes the case that adaptation studies are particularly well suited for tracing Germany's obsessive cultural engagement with its twentieth-century history.

Contributors: Elizabeth Baer, Rachel Epp Buller, Maria Euchner, Richard C. Figge, Susan G. Figge, Mareike Hermann, LindaHutcheon, Irene Lazda, Cary Nathenson, Thomas Sebastian, Sunka Simon, Jenifer K. Ward.

Susan G. Figge is Professor of German Emeritus at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and Jenifer K. Ward is Associate Provost, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.

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Euchner, Maria
MARIA EUCHNER is a Faculty Fellow in the Foundation Year Program at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Contributors: Elizabeth Baer, Rachel Epp Buller, Maria Euchner, Richard C. Figge, Susan G. Figge, Mareike Hermann, Linda Hutcheon, Irene Lazda, Cary Nathenson, Thomas Sebastian, Sunka Simon, Jenifer K. Ward.

Susan G. Figge is Professor of German Emeritus at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and Jenifer K. Ward is Associate Provost, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle.



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