Recently added articles from The Germanic Review:
Invisible person: Schmitt and the master trope of power.(Carl Schmitt)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Weineck, Silke-Maria ... ABSTRACT: Taking Schmitt's famous dictum that "all significant concepts of the theory of the modern state are secularized theological concepts" as its starting point, this article serves as a critique of Schmitt's concept of secularization via a reflection on paternity as the master ...
Sacrifice as political representation in Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstucke.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Pan, David ... ABSTRACT: In pursuing the goal of a political theater, Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstucke such as Der Jasager and Der Neinsager neither efface nor exalt the individual, but provide insight into how the representational aspect of political power in the modern world is linked to the individual's ...
A monument under lock and key: seeking Germany's colonial lieux de memoire.(Briefly Noted)
Jun 22, 2009; Steinmetz, George ... I was in Paris during the spring of 2007 when I came across an article about the reinstallation in Hamburg of a pair of massive terracotta relief sculptures of African "Askari" soldiers. These sculptures were the work of the colonial artist Walter von Ruckteschell. I had seen ...
Christina von Braun und Bettina Mathes. Verschleierte Wirklichkeit: Die Frau, der Islam und der Westen.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Shafi, Monika ... Christina von Braun und Bettina Mathes. Verschleierte Wirklichkeit: Die Frau, der Islam und der Westen. Berlin: Aufbau, 2007. S. 476. Das Titelbild dieser kulturgeschichtlichen Studie zur west-ostlichen Geschlechterordnung zeigt eine dem Betrachter ...
Edward Larkey. Rotes Rockradio. Populare Musik und die Kommerzialisierung des DDR-Rundfunks.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Brown, Timothy S. ... Edward Larkey. Rotes Rockradio. Populare Musik und die Kommerzialisierung des DDR-Rundfunks. Munster: LIT, 2007. Pp. 372. The Communist regime in East Germany enjoyed a notoriously troubled relationship with popular music. Almost from its inception in ...
Karl Leydecker, ed.: German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Ganeva, Mila ... Karl Leydecker, ed. German Novelists of the Weimar Republic: Intersections of Literature and Politics. Rochester: Camden, 2006. Pp. 286. It seems that in the field of German studies, as far as the period of the Weimar Republic is concerned, there is no ...
Katharina Gerstenberger. Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Schwabe, Claudia ... Katharina Gerstenberger. Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in Post-Wall Literature. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture. Rochester: Camden, 2008. Pp. 209. Writing the New Berlin investigates the new function of post-Wall literature as a source for ...
Brad Prager. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Lehman, Will ... Brad Prager. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth. London: Wallflower, 2007. Pp. 219. Brad Prager's book refreshingly fills a gap in Herzog scholarship that had been growing for more than a decade, and it will undoubtedly be the ...
Hermann Bernauer. Zeitungslekture im "Mann ohne Eigenschaften." Musil-Studien Band 36.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Turk, Johannes ... Hermann Bernauer. Zeitungslekture im "Mann ohne Eigenschaften." Musil-Studien Band 36. Munchen: Wilhelm Fink, 2007. S. 170. Der zu Lebzeiten unterschatzte Dichter Robert Musil gehort seit den achtziger Jahren unbestritten zu den wichtigsten ...
Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes, eds.: Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2009; Yildiz, Yasemin ... Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes, eds. Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005. Berkeley: U of California P, 2007. Pp. 588. "How does migration change a nation?" the editors of Germany in Transit ask at the outset. The rich source ...
