Edinburgh German Yearbook 7 - Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture

Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films.

List of contents

Introduction: Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
"The Absoluteness of the Knowledge Once Possessed": 1968 Ethics and Consensual Ethics in Uwe Timm's Novel Rot
What the World Needs Now: Rancière, Ethology, and Christian Petzold's Toter Mann (2001) and Wolfsburg (2003)
Materiality and Ethics in Recent German Prose Narratives by Angelika Overath and Angela Krauß
Shameful Stories: The Ethics of East German Memory Contests in Fiction by Julia Schoch, Stefan Moster, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Judith Schalansky
Affective Encounters and Ethical Responses in Robert Schneider's Die Luftgängerin and Sybille Berg's Vielen Dank für das Leben
Narrative Ethics and the Problems of Age and Aging in Annette Pehnt's Haus der Schildkröten
"So ähnlich könnte es gewesen sein, aber [. . .]": Unethical Narrations of Emily Ruete's "Große Wandlungen"
Enlightenment Fundamentalism: Zafer Senocak, Navid Kermani, and Multiculturalism in Germany Today
Voicing Rupture: Ethical Concerns in Short Prose and Lyric Texts by Yoko Tawada

About the author

Emily Jeremiah, Frauke Matthes

Product details

• Authors: Emily Jeremiah
• Assisted by: Emily Jeremiah (Editor), Frauke Matthes (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781571135506
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-550-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies