The meaning of culture
Subtitle: German studies in the 21st century
By: edited by Martin Kagel and Laura Tate Kagel
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Publisher: Wehrhahn
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Hannover]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783865251220
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Study and teaching; German Arts; Popular culture
Notes: "Based on papers given at a German studies conference held on the University of Georgia campus in spring 2008."-- P. [7].

Includes bibliographic references (p. [260]-272).
Table of contents: title: Disciplinarity and the object of culture : some remarks on the state of American Germanistik  -- Michael W. Jennings; title: The culture of "culture" : the paradox of primacy in the Kulturwissenschaften  -- Katherine Arens; title: Affirmative culture from Marcuse to Moritz  -- Matt Erlin; title: How get into Valhalla : the cultural meaning of musical greatness in nineteenth-century Germany  -- Celia Applegate; title: Reflections on marginality, German-Jewish literature, and the study of popular culture  -- Jonathan M. Hess -- Behind closed doors : comparing cultures of erotic space / -- Simon Richter; title: Edgar Wallace goes east : location of genre and German identities in Joachim Hasler's Fog  -- Stefan Soldovieri; title: "I am interested in the truths in-between, not the simple truth" : in conversation with German director Andreas Dresen  -- Christine Haase, -- Martin Kagel; title: Claiming blackness in Germany  -- Sara Lennox -- Cultures of violence in the new German street / -- Patricia Anne Simpson; title: Four stories  -- Dilek Güngör; title: Transnational literature, transnational studies  -- statements by Celia Applegate, -- Dilek Güngör, and Sara Lennox; title: Looking good with Kafka -- Rembert Hüser.