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While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve "normalization." The essays in this volume take a closer look at Germany's new normalcy and argue for a more nuanced picture that considers the ruptures as well as the continuities. Germany's new generation of writers is more diverse than ever before, and their texts often not only speak of a Germany that is multicultural but also take a more playful attitude toward notions of identity. Written with an eye toward similar and dissimilar developments and traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, this volume balances overviews of significant trends in present-day cultural life with illustrative analyses of individual writers and texts.

German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism. --- German literature -- Europe, German-speaking -- History and criticism. --- German literature -- Appreciation -- Europe, German-speaking. --- Europe, German-speaking -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. --- Europe, German-speaking -- Intellectual life -- 21st century. --- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation --- Europe, German-speaking --- United States --- Intellectual life --- German-speaking Europe --- Germanophone Europe --- German literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- German literature - 21st century - History and criticism --- German literature - Europe, German-speaking - History and criticism --- German literature - Appreciation - Europe, German-speaking --- Europe, German-speaking - Intellectual life - 20th century --- Europe, German-speaking - Intellectual life - 21st century --- United States - Intellectual life - 20th century --- United States - Intellectual life - 21st century

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Die von Bourdieus Grundlagenwerk Die Regeln der Kunst ausgelöste Debatte um Nutzen und Nachteil der Literatursoziologie hat sich hierzulande meist auf abstrakter Ebene abgespielt. Der Band Mediale Erregungen? Autonomie und Aufmerksamkeit im Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb der Gegenwart versammelt Aufsätze, die Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Feldtheorie für die Literaturwissenschaft ausloten. Es handelt sich um theoriegeleitete, textbezogen ausgerichtete Untersuchungen zum gegenwärtigen Literatur- und Kulturbetrieb. Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz führen die Vielschichtigkeit, Bandbreite und Aktualität feldtheoretisch inspirierter Untersuchungen vor Augen und zeigen an Beispielen medialer Kulturvermittlung die Notwendigkeit, die in der postmodernen Literaturwissenschaft kultivierte These Il n'y a pas de hors-texte zu problematisieren. Sie analysieren individuelle Autorenkarrieren, Formen medialer Literaturvermittlung, die Wirkung von Literaturkritik und das Verhältnis von Staatskunst und Autonomie um die Jahrtausendwende.

Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Germany --- Social life and customs. --- Literature and society - Europe, German-speaking - Congresses --- Politics and literature - Europe, German-speaking - Congresses --- German literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Congresses --- German literature - 21st century - History and criticism - Congresses --- Literature, Modern - Philosophy - Congresses --- Europe, German-speaking - Intellectual life - 20th century - Congresses --- Europe, German-speaking - Intellectual life - 21st century - Congresses --- Bourdieu, Pierre. --- Field Theory. --- Mediation of Literature. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Theory of Literature.

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This pioneering book reevaluates the place of converts from Judaism in the narrative of Jewish history. Long considered beyond the pale of Jewish historiography, converts played a central role in shaping both noxious and positive images of Jews and Judaism for Christian readers. Focusing on German Jews who converted to Christianity in the sixteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries, Elisheva Carlebach explores an extensive and previously unexamined trove of their memoirs and other writings. These fascinating original sources illuminate the Jewish communities that the converts left, the Christian society they entered, and the unabating tensions between the two worlds in early modern German history. The book begins with the medieval images of converts from Judaism and traces the hurdles to social acceptance that they encountered in Germany through early modern times. Carlebach examines the converts' complicated search for community, a quest that was to characterize much of Jewish modernity, and she concludes with a consideration of the converts' painful legacies to the Jewish experience in German lands."Carlebach's reading of autobiographical texts by converts from Judaism is careful, intelligent, and skeptical--a model of how to treat spiritual memoirs."--Todd M. Endelman, University of Michigan "This superb book highlights the ambiguous identities of these boundary crossers and their impact on both German and Jewish self-definitions."--Paula E. Hyman, Yale University Elisheva Carlebach is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History, and coeditor of Jewish History and Jewish Memory.

Christian converts from Judaism --- Converts from Judaism --- Converts from Judaism to Christianity --- Ex-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- Jews --- History. --- Conversion to Christianity --- Christian converts from Judaism - Europe, German-speaking - History.

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What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that tradition? And how is the writing of the history (or histories) of that tradition shaped by men and masculinities? This book seeks to answer these and other questions.

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Paracelsus is regarded as one of the great medical innovators of all time, as a prototype of Goethe's Faust and as a founder of German Renaissance nature philosophy. Recently, his role in the popular "radical Reformation" that coincided with but went beyond Luther's church reform has been recognized as well. A legendary wanderer and rebel, he is an author of undisputed importance, but also one clouded by puzzling ambiguities. Based on a close examination and revised dating of Paracelsus's writings, this book rejects certain myths concerning the author's scientific orientation and experience of nature. The genesis of his thought is traced to his responses to sectarian conflicts of the early Reformation. One can characterize Paracelsus's project as that of a radical theorist who transgressed the boundaries of disciplines and seized upon the irreducible particularities of his phenomena - the transmuted disease or the unrecognized female pathology - to challenge the established order and ideology.

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