War, violence and the modern condition / edited by Bernd Huppauf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger.

Series:

European cultures ; v. 8.

European cultures : studies in literature and the arts ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and civilization.

World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Europe, German-speaking.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.

War in literature.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Austrian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Austrian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "War, Violence and the Modern Condition".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction: Modernity and Violence: Observations Concerning a Contradictory Relationship / HÜPPAUF, BERND

Violence and Modernity

The Great War and the Persistence of Tradition: Languages of Grief, Bereavement and Mourning / WINTER, J. M.

Starting from Scratch: Concepts of Order in No Man's Land / VISMANN, CORNELIA

The Therapeutic Response: Continuities from World War One to National Socialism / TROMMLER, FRANK

From War Economy to "New Economy": World War I and the Conservative Debate about the 'other' Modernity in Germany / MICHALKA, WOLFGANG

Codes of War and Violence

Some Lessons of the War: The Discourse on the Propaganda and Public Opinion in Germany in the 1920s / VERHEY, JEFFREY

Blitzkrieg: "God Stinnes" or the Depoliticization of the Sublime / BARCK, KARLHEINZ

The fiftieth Anniversary of the Allied Air Raids on Dresden: A Half Century of Literature and History Writing / SPENCER, ANDY

Sexy Nazis and Daddy's Girls: Fascism and Sexuality in Film and Video since the 1970s / SLANE, ANDREA

Bodies, Souls and Modern Warfare

Aesculap in the Trenches: Aspects of German Medicine in the First World War / ECKART, WOLFGANG U.

The Failure of Love: A Lesser Theory of the Great War / DURING, LISABETH

Benn's Body. Masculine Aesthetics and Reproduction in Gottfried Benn's Essays / MAZUR OCKENFUSS, CRYSTAL

Women in the Military and the Cult of Masculinity / D'ALTON, PHILLIP

Artistic and Literary Representations of Modern Warfare

"A Murderous Carnival": German Artists in the First World War / CORK, RICHARD

Arnold Zweig's War Novellas of 1914 and their Versions: Literature, Modernity and the Demands of the Day / COHEN, ROBERT

War and Novel: Alfred Döblin's "Wallenstein" and "November 1918" / MÜLLER, HARRO

Violent Orders in Robert Musil's "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" and Thomas Bernhard's "Kalkwerk" / MEHIGAN, TIM

"Les peuples meurent, pour que Dieu vive": Gertrud Kolmar's Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution / FETSCHER, JUSTUS

Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller's Work / KITTLER, WOLF

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-401) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110817256

311081725X

OCLC:

794664374