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"Honecker's Vassal" or a Prehistorian in the Service of Science? The Evaluation of Former East German Scholarship and the Concept of the Scholar in the Debate on Joachim Herrmann in Reunified Germany. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2021 Abstract The evaluation and transformation process of the GDR research system in the wake of German reunification 1989/90 was immediately accompanied not only by debates within the scientific community, but also by an extensive discussion about the value and future perspectives of East German scholarship and its protagonists in the nationally ...
Kluger A.
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Deep distant reading: The rise of realism in Scandinavian literature as a case study
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 335-352, October 2023., 2023 Abstract In this article we make a case for a synchronic and contextualizing perspective on the scaling of literary data, one which qualifies and expands the data points in terms of depth, or thickness, through the help of metadata on the social and historical conditions of the texts. Our case study is an investigation of the rise and impact of realism
Jens Bjerring‐Hansen, Matthew Wilkens
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Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 649-667, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower‐class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower‐class people read: the daily habits, personal relationships, and social spaces that shaped ...
Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan
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A Wende in representing the Holocaust in German literature? From Jurek Becker to W. G. Sebald
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 3, Page 344-358, Summer 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines Jurek Becker's 1976 novel Der Boxer and W. G. Sebald's critical essay on Becker “Ich möchte zu ihnen hinabsteigen und finde den Weg nicht. Zu den Romanen Jurek Beckers” (posthumously published in 2010) to show how they reflect the changing norms of Holocaust testimony in German literature.
Helen Finch
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Relational coupling of multiple streams: The case of COVID‐19 infections in German abattoirs
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 351-374, May 2023., 2023 Abstract After a series of COVID‐19 outbreaks among employees in the German meat‐processing industry, the Work Safety Control Act protecting these workers made it on the government's agenda in July 2020. From a Multiple Streams perspective, local corona hotspots may be understood as policy windows for introducing respective measures.
Malte Möck +3 more
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THE GERMAN MUSEUM AND THE EARLY RECEPTION OF GERMAN LETTERS IN BRITAIN, 1800–18011
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 222-244, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The early reception of German letters in London can be better understood through a close reading of the bookseller Constantin Geisweiler's short‐lived journal The German Museum (1800–1801). The 1790s have been described as an era of literary ‘Germanomania’, as numerous translations of German works appeared for the first time in English.
Oliver Puckey
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Transnational Solidarities and Competing Visions of Europe: Vienna's Vote on the Russo‐Japanese War
History, Volume 107, Issue 378, Page 885-909, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The 1904–05 Russo‐Japanese War is commonly described as a clash between a European power (Russia) and an Asian one (Japan). This binary framing is problematic, however, as ideas of Europeanness and Asianness were hotly contested during the war.
ULRICH BRANDENBURG
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022 Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 410-429, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Retrospective accounts of the life and works of Robert Burns offer us examples of how ‘genius’ functioned in the nineteenth century, not only as a concept of inspired, natural authorship but also as a way of establishing and stabilising class identity and belonging.
Paul Keckeis
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Queer Orientalism and Modernism in Dance Photographs of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi
The German Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 2, Page 167-182, Spring 2022., 2022 This article analyzes the staging, costuming, make‐up, and gestural semiotics of Zeremonienmeister and Persisches Lied, two 1929 photographs of the German Expressionist dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, while reflecting upon the affordances of still photography as a medium for the representation of their movement‐based art form.
Wesley Lim
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