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Detectives, dystopias, and poplit : studies in modern German genre fiction /

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of genres and foregrounding concerns of gender, environmentalism, and memory.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Campbell, Bruce, 1955- (Editor ), Guenther-Pal, Alison (Editor ), Petersen, Vibeke Rützou, 1943- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Closing a Bildungslücke-Genre Fiction and Why It Is Important; Part I. Science Fiction and Dystopia; 1: German Science Fiction: Its Formative Works and Its Postwar Uses of the Holocaust; 2: A Future-History Out of Time: The Historical Context of Döblin's Expressionist Dystopian Experiment, Berge Meere und Giganten; 3: Eco-Eschbach: Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach; Part II. Detection and Crime.
  • 4: Murder in the Weimar Republic: Prejudice, Politics, and the Popular in the Socialist Crime Fiction of Hermynia Zur Mühlen5: The Imaginary FBI: Jerry Cotton, the Nazi Roots of the Bundeskriminalamt, and the Cultural Politics of Detective Fiction in West Germany; 6: Justice and Genre: The Krimi as a Site of Memory in Contemporary Germany; 7: Detecting Identity: Reading the Clues in German-Language Crime Fiction by Klüpfel and Kobr and Steinfest; Part III. Versions of the "I": Pop Literatures on the Way to the Self.
  • 8: The Pedagogy of Pulp: Liberated Sexuality and Its Consequences through the Eyes of Vicki Baum's stud. chem. Helene Willfüer9: The Kränzchen Library and the Creation of Teenage Identity; 10: Close the Border, Mind the Gap: Pop Misogyny and Social Critique in Christian Kracht's Faserland; Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover.