The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture
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- Editors:
- Eva Kolinsky, University of Wolverhampton
- Wilfried van der Will, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: February 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521568708
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One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.
Read more- Useful reference tools include a chronology of Germany from 1789 (French Revolution) to the first all-Germany elections in 1990; a guide to further reading; maps of Germany after the 30-Years War, in 1812, after World War II, and post-reunification
- Contributors are drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines including European studies, architecture, philosophy, film, history, performing arts, music, literature, politics and visual arts
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- Date Published: February 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521568708
- length: 392 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 4 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology
In search of German culture: an introduction Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will
1. The citizen and the state in modern Germany Peter Pulzer
2. German national identity John Breuilly
3. Elites and class structure Hans-Georg Betz
4. Jews in German society Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Höfig
5. Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society Eva Kolinsky
6. Critiques of culture Andrew Bowie
7. The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture Wilfried van der Will
8. The development of German prose fiction Martin Swales
9. Modern German poetry Karen Leeder
10. German drama, theatre and dance Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley
11. Music in modern German culture Erik Levi
12. Modern German art Irit Rogoff
13. Modern German architecture Iain Boyd Whyte
14. German cinema Martin Brady and Helen Hughes
15. The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television Holger Briel
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