War, Violence and the Modern Condition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hüppauf, Bernd

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship -- Violence and Modernity -- The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning -- Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man¿s Land -- The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism -- From War Economy to ¿New Economy¿: World War I and the Conservative Debate about the `other¿ Modernity in Germany -- Codes of War and Violence -- Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s -- Blitzkrieg: ¿God Stinnes¿ or the Depoliticization of the Sublime -- The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing -- Sexy Nazis and Daddy¿s Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s -- Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare -- Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War -- The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War -- Benn¿s Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn¿s Essays -- Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity -- Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare -- ¿A Murderous Carnival¿: German Artists in the First World War -- Arnold Zweig¿s War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day -- War and Novel: Alfred Döblin¿s ¿Wallenstein¿ and ¿November 1918¿ -- Violent Orders in Robert Musil¿s ¿Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften¿ and Thomas Bernhard¿s ¿Kalkwerk¿ -- ¿Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive¿: Gertrud Kolmar¿s Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution -- Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller¿s Work -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110817256
• Artikelnr.: 53101903