Violence, culture and identity : essays on German and Austrian literature, politics and society /
Chambers, Helen,1947-
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang,
c2006.
Violence and pacification in Norbert Elia's theory of civilization / Helmut Kuzmics -- Sharp tongues and sharper swords: violence towards women in the Ritter vom Turn / Anne Simon -- Women's identity and authoritarian force: women pamphleteers of the German Reformation / Ulrike Zitsperger -- 'Die Menschen zu ibrem Glück zwingen': polemical and judicial violence in the Austrian enlightenment / Ritchie Robertson -- Violence and aesthetic identity in Weimar classicism / R.H. Stephenson -- The Jew in the thorn bush: German fairy tales and anti-semitism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Musäus, Naubert and the Grimms -- Representations of colonial violence in the poetry of Theodor Fontane / Helen Chambers -- Gender, identity and the function of violence in Ferdinand von Saar's Die troglodytin / Michael Boehringer -- From 'the propaganda of the deed' to the new community: the transformation of anarchism in Germany 1880-1920 and its reflection in literature / Malcolm Humble -- Dangerous women: woman as sexual criminal in the Weimar republic / Ingrid Sharp -- Fire and blood: modernization, individuation and violence of German war literature / Michael Gratzke -- Changing notions of identity: the German soldier of the Second World War / Maggie Sargeant -- Bodies of violence, violated bodies: the victimized victimizer in Albert Drach's Holocaust autobiography / Mary Cosgrove -- Political violence and national identity in Germany, 1945 and 1989 / Clare Flanagan -- 'Wenn deine identität kampf ist': violence, gendered language and identity in the writing of Ulrike Marie Meinhof / Sarah Colvin -- Deadly identity formations in Gert Heidenreich's Füchse jagen / Volker Langbehn -- Terror on the stage: the German 'red army faction' (RAF) as political performance / Henrik Pedersen -- 'Sticks and stones may break my bones...': the aesthetic enactment of violence in the work of Elfriede Jelinek / Rebecca Beard -- A stolen childhood: the fact and fiction of 'Schwarze Pädagogik' / Petra M. Bagley -- Spaces of violence: on the role of home, nature and gender in narratives by Karen Duve and Felicitas Hoppe / Monika Shafi -- Crossing the boundary of the other: identity and physical violence in Georg Klein's novel Libidissi / Matthias Fiedler -- 'Bestialisch dahingeschlachtet': extreme violence in German crime fiction / Christopher Jones.
Papers presented at a conference held at St. Andrews University in 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
German literature
Austrian literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Violence in literature
Politics and literature