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Rhine crossings : France and Germany in love and war
- Title
- Rhine crossings : France and Germany in love and war / edited by Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- vii, 304 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Rhine Crossings explores the conflicts and resolutions that have characterized the relationship between France and Germany over the past two centuries. Despite their varying outlooks on life and style (the French esprit and the German wesen), and despite three bloody wars (the Franco-Prussian and the two world wars), there has always been and still is a vital intellectual, political, and cultural exchange between these former "archenemies." The essays in this book detail the admiration and antagonism in French and German attempts to seek each other out while keeping their individual senses of self. Focusing on representative works of literature, film, and philosophy, the contributors identify the problems vexing these countries (war, economic competition) as well as possible solutions (the Maastricht treaty, increasing youth exchange). From the literary salons of the eighteenth century to the trenches of the twentieth, from a love-hate relationship to one of cooperation and peace, this book investigates the unique and volatile dialectic between these two nations and cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- France and Germany : a tempestuous affair / Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman -- Ch. 1. Re-constructing a "gendered" Bildung : Mme de Stael's and Sophie von la Riche's epistolary fiction / Beatrice Guenther -- Ch. 2. "Vous appelles cela betrugen?" : slippery French morals and German bourgeois virtues in selected writings by G. E. Lessing / Heidi M. Schlipphacke -- Ch. 3. The dying poet : scenarios of a Christianized Heine / Sarah Juliette Sasson -- Ch. 4. Girls, girls, girls : re-membering the body / Terri J. Gordon -- Ch. 5. Hygiene, hard work, and the pursuit of style in Baudelaire and Nietzsche / Andrea Gogrof-Voorhees -- Ch. 6. Pierrette, assassine assassinee : the portrait of Lulu in two tableaux / Jennifer Forrest -- Ch. 7. Benjamin between Berlin and Paris : the metaphorics of the city / Michael Payne -- Ch. 8. A fleur du dialogue : Georges Bataille, Karl Blossfeldt, and the language of flowers / Kimberley Healey -- Ch. 9. An unwanted connection : Aristide Maillol and Nazism / William J. Cloonan -- Ch. 10. Of heroes and traitors : two early films by Rene Clement / Philip Watts -- Ch. 11. Between collaboration and resistance : Ernst Junger in Paris, 1941-44 / Elliot Neaman -- Ch. 12. Romy Schneider, La Passante du Sans-Souci : discourses of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, feminism, and myth / Nina Zimnik -- Ch. 13. History/Paris-Berlin/history / Sande Cohen.
- ISBN
- 0791464377 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004014214
- OCLC
- ocm55679736
- SCSB-5189199
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries