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Is Literature Still Central to German Studies?
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"Literature" versus "Culture"
Literature has always stood in need of being justified. What should be special about its precarious position in German studies? Before I attempt an outline of its shifting fortunes within the discipline of German in the United States in recent decades, I need to recall Wolfgang Iser's reminder: "Since Aristotle we have grown accustomed to a branch of criticism that strives to analyze just what literature should be or should achieve."1 Looking at the recent traffic in theories that has blossomed by questioning these justifications of literature, I cannot but ...
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Forum: Is Literature Still Central to German Studies?
; ...forum title-Is Literature Still Central to German Studies?-has many implications...inclusion? But in German Studies these complexities...the position of literature in German Studies-...them canonical literature as cod-liver...privileging" of literature and ...
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German Studies as Perpetual Difference: A Cosmopolitical Sketch
; ...discipline such as German Studies through the filters...German language and literature, I remain attentive...practitioners of German Studies alike can constructively...Foreign Languages and Literatures" confers upon it...the engagement of German Studies with ...
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German studies: Who cares?
; ...exploration of the role German Studies can play in a larger academic...fundamental to the project of German Studies: "What's the point?" and...ago, I still believed that literature mattered. Perhaps my AngloAmerican...training had convinced me that literature contained "the best ...
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German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity
; ...German-speaking literature and facing the...inter-disciplinarity within a German Studies curriculum. The...relationship of German literature and German studies outside the Federal...field of German literature proper, three...post-Holocaust ...
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Introduction: The Profession of Literature at the End of the Millennium.
; This issue of College Literature will be the last to be published in the...what might be in store for those teaching literature in the 21 st century. We could begin by asking what literature is in general, what it has become by the...
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How much German in German Studies?
; ...transmitted via language, German Studies without German is...How much German in German Studies?" WILLIAM COLLINS...How much German in German Studies?"-seems to presuppose that German Studies is to blame for a...to the rise of the German ...
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The role of literature and culture in the classroom. (Editorial).(Editorial)
; The role of literature and culture in the classroom is undergoing a dramatic...growth of technology have transformed the role of literature and culture for today's world. Literature is no longer seen as an isolated discipline worthy...
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A view from the island: how to get your Ph.D. in children's literature.
; ...I was appointed to teach Children's Literature at a School of Librarianship in London...with North America, where children's literature has formed part of some syllabuses in...children in postwar British children's literature, and a 200page study of The Sleeping...
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J. Hillis Miller. On Literature.(Book Review)
; J. Hillis Miller. On Literature. New York. Routledge. 2002. xii...and deepest questions regarding literature--what it is, what it does, how it...Miller insists both that the end of literature is at hand and that literature is...
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Barren lives without literature; Reading great books offers the promise of knowledge.(OPED)
; ...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Once upon a time, Literature, with the capital L, was la creme de...contemplation of many different subjects, but literature offered the promise of knowledge that...for their own sake, exploiting great literature to make political points, the great...
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