Weimar Culture Revisited - John Williams

Weimar Culture Revisited
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Autor: John Williams

 Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230109421
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 262
Data wydania: 2011-01-01
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Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic shift in the research on culture in general away from the strict focus on high arts and literature to everyday popular culture. A younger generation of scholars now takes the broad view of culture as not merely the work of elite artists and intellectuals, but as constructed in everyday practice and thorough popular participation. Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of these "new cultural history" approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection of pieces by historians, literary and films scholars, and art historians focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture. It provides a variety of interdisciplinary approaches explaining the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era. "For some time now, scholars have been expanding the definition of 'Weimar Culture' to include much more than Brecht and the Bauhaus. This book offers a lively selection of some of the most innovative, challenging, and rewarding research currently underway in Weimar studies."--Matthew Jefferies, Professor of German History, Manchester University"Contradicting the cliche of inevitable doom, this collection takes a fresh look at Weimar's mass culture by exploring its visual, transnational, political, and recreational practices. The essays present the findings of a generation of 'new cultural historians' which emphasizes the potential of the first democratic culture in Germany."-- Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This highly readable and important collection of essays challenges the teleological and doom-laden narrative that has been the conventional approach to the history of the Weimar Republic more or less since its end in 1933. John Alexander Williams has brought together a team of excellent younger scholars whose individual contributions to the volume cast Weimar culture in an entirely different light . . . No good reading list will be able to do without this highly recommended volume."--Anthony McElligott, Professor of History, University of Limerick"This collection challenges interpretations of Weimar culture in ways both complex and fresh. For the range of compelling topics, there is nothing like it."--Belinda Davis, Professor, The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University"This culturally-informed social history liberates the history of Weimar culture from those narratives of pessimism and crisis into which it has been shoehorned by the focus on canonical works of high culture and opens up new vistas that lead the reader in unexpected directions."--Young-sun Hong, Associate Professor, Department of History, State Un

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