| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 310 pages) |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Contents |
The metaphor of cultural impact and the cultural impact of metaphor / Katrin Kohl -- The bombing of Dresden and the idea of cultural impact / Anne Fuchs -- Understanding the cultural impact of popular film / Ben Morgan -- Cultural impact and the power of myth in popular public constructions of authorship / Rebecca Braun -- Cultural impact as symbolic capital : the case of the elite intellectual field / Matthew Philpotts -- Frederick 300 in 2012 : a case study of institutional management of heritage in Germany / Jurgen Luh -- "Art needs bread" : supporting literature in Germany / Gunther Nickel -- "I've been told ... that the play is far too German" : the interplay of institution and dramaturgy in shaping British reactions to German theater / David Barnett -- You shall know them by their objects : material culture and its impact in museum displays about National Socialism / Chloe Paver -- Discrepant narratives : the impact of transborder theater festivals on communities at the German-Polish border / Jane Wilkinson -- The impact of an unperson? Peter-Paul Zahl, Peter-Jürgen Boock, and the cultural impact of prison writing / Sarah Colvin -- The organic intellectual : the public and political impact of Greta Kuckhoff, 1945-1949 / Joanne Sayner -- The politics of cultural impact : Michael Kohlhaas in East Berlin / Laura Bradley -- Ingeborg Bachmann as poet and myth : a case study in cultural impact / Karen Leeder -- Sponsoring authorial impact : the case of Ingo Schulze / Jenny McKay |
| Summary |
How to gauge the impact of cultural products is an old question, but bureaucratic agendas such as the one recently implemented in the UK to measure the impact of university research (including in German Studies) are new. Impact is seen as confirming a cultural product's value for society -- not least in the eyes of cultural funders. Yet its use as an evaluative category has been widely criticized by academics. Rather than rejecting the concept of impact, however, this volume employs it as a metaphor to reflect on issues of transmission, reception, and influence that have always underlain cultural production but have escaped systematic conceptualization. It seeks to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world: how writers and artists express themselves, how readers and audiences engage with the resulting products, and how academics are drawn to analyze this dynamic process. Formulating such questions afresh in the context of German Studies, the volume examines both contemporary cultural discourse and the way it evolves more generally. It links such topics as authorial intention, readerly reception, intertextuality, and modes of perception to less commonly studied phenomena, such as the institutional practices of funding bodies, that underpin cultural discourse. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley, Rebecca Braun, Sarah Colvin, Anne Fuchs, Katrin Kohl, Karen Leeder, Jürgen Luh, Jenny McKay, Ben Morgan, Gunther Nickel, Chloe Paver, Joanne Sayner, Matthew Philpotts, Jane Wilkinson |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Culture in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Culture in literature
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German literature
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Politics in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Braun, Rebecca.
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Marven, Lyn
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| ISBN |
9781571137210 |
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1571137211 |
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128287635X |
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9781282876354 |
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