The Challenge of German Culture Essays presented to Wilfried van der Will [Hardcover]

A wide-ranging collection of essays by leading British, American and German scholars, covering German literature, culture and politics from the Middle Ages to the present day. Based mainly on original research, the individual contributions reveal the rich complexity and vitality of contemporary German studies.Foreword Notes on the Contributors Wilfried van der Will; M.Butler Hadubrand's 'Fragevers?umnis' in the Hildebrandslied ; R.Evans Willehalm and Puzz?t, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's Willehalm and in the Bataille d'Aliscans B?rger and 'das schwankende Wort Volk'; D.Hill Moments of Emancipation: The Nineteenth-century Heroine in German Literature; R.Whittle 'Apollo aber schlieblich die Sprache des Dionysus'; Harmony or Hegemony in Die Geburt der Trag?die?; R.Speirs Ernst Stadler in Oxford; R.Sheppard Historicity and all that: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht's Die Mabnahme; M.Swales 'Zwischen den Zeilen'? The Development of Dolf Sternberger's political 'Sprachkritik' from the 'W?rterbuch der Regierung von Papen' to 'Ein guter Ausdruck'; B.Dodd The Paradox of Simultaneity: 'Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung' in Paul Schall?ck's Engelbert Reineke; J.Klapper Authenticity and the 'Speaking Other': G?nter Wallraff's Ganz unten as an Industrial Fiction; R.Burns Der parodierte Erz?hler Grass: Anmerkungem zur Wirkung des Romans Die R?ttin; M.Durzak East German Literature and the Cold War: The Example of Erich Loest's Die Westmark f?llt weiter; M.Kane Was bleibt Revisited: Christa Wolf and the Fear of Transience; M.Butler High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public; K.Bullivant Reflections on Jewish Culture in Germany since 1945; E.Kolinsky Visiting Frau Behrens; B.Taylor Reflections on German History and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism; G.Minnerup The Social Dynamics of Dictatorship: Re-evaluating the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic from the 'Bottom Up'; J.Grix & C.Jeffery The Impact of 1968 on the SPD; W.E.Patterson Wilfried van derl³&