Research Catalog

Title

Representing the good German in literature and culture after 1945 : altruism and moral ambiguity / edited by Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Christiane Schönfeld.

Publication

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Ó Dochartaigh, Pól
• Schönfeld, Christiane
• Ó Dochartaigh, Pól
• Schönfeld, Christiane

Description

viii, 261 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Subject

• Literature and morals > Germany
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Germans in literature
• Germans in motion pictures
• Identity (Psychology) > Germany
• Germany > Philosophy. > 20th century

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
• Includes filmography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Re-presenting the good German: philosophical reflections / Maeve Cook -- "Görings glorreichste Günstlinge": the portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gustaf Gründgens as good Germans in the West German media since 1945 / Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský -- From Hitler's champion to German of the century: on the representation and reinvention of Max Schmeling / Jon Hughes -- Wilhelm Krützfeld and other "good" constables in police station 16 in Hackescher Markt, Berlin / Eoin Burke -- The "good German" between silence and artistic deconstruction of an inhumane world: Johannes Bobrowski's "Mäusefest" and "Der Tänze malige" / Sabine Egger -- Saints and sinners: the good German and her others in Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame / Matthias Uecker -- Being human: good Germans in postwar German film / Christiane Schönfeld -- "The banality of good"?: good Nazis in contemporary German film / Alexandra Ludewig -- Memories of good and evil in Sophie Scholl-die letzten Tage / Coman Hamilton -- Deconstructing the good German in French bestsellers published in the aftermath of the Second World War / Manuel Bragança -- Macbeth, not Henry V: Shakespearean allegory in the construction of Vercor's good German / Kevin de Ornellas -- A good Irish German: in praise of Hugo Hamilton's mother / Joachim Fischer -- Shades of gray: the beginnings of the postwar moral compromise in Joseph Kanon's The good German / Pól Ó Dochartaigh.

ISBN

• 9781571134981 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 1571134980 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2012046835

OCLC

• 824608920
• SCSB-11518499

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library