Putting stones in place: Anne Duden and German acts of memory
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A close reading of Anne Duden's short story 'Ubergang' is offered which conjures the Holocaust with metaphors of waste and stone, which in turn address the debates on proper historical form for commemorating Germany's most abject historical moment. Duden's text does, in places, invoke mournful relations between Germans and victims of the Holocaust, if waste prompts an inevitable Entsorgung and stone appears to petrify historical memory.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2004
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Fontane's Unwiederbringlich: a Bakhtinian reading
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The language of Theodor FontaneEs Unwiederbringlich in terms of four major depicted discourses, righteous, sentimental, mischievous and courtly, is examined. These discourses are voiced largely in the speech of characters, who assimilate and combine them in various ways in an endless process of self-renewal.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2004
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"Lab mich sein, was ich bin": Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld's performance of a lifetime
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Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld's writings are an interesting record of the conditions under which an actress worked and lived in the 18th century. The main focus of the essay is on how the women of 18th century faced the cultural construction of womanhood in terms of naturalness.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 2003
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