Europe in upheaval : identity in politics, literature and film

Europe in upheaval : identity in politics, literature and film / Michaela Nicole Raß, Kay Wolfinger, editors.

This volume on the term "Europe" is based on a conference that took place in the winter of 2018 at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. Europe in its complexity, in its character of radical change and its power of fascination is of unbroken topicality. At the same time, Eur...

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Other Authors: Rass, Michaela Nicole (Editor), Wolfinger, Kay (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Subjects:
National characteristics, European > Congresses.
Nationalism > Europe > Congresses.
National characteristics, European, in literature > Congresses.
National characteristics, European > In motion pictures > Congresses.
National characteristics, European
National characteristics, European, in literature
Nationalism
Europe
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Europe in transition. Identity in politics, literature and film
  • Europe is everywhere: Introductory thoughts
  • Part II: Europe as a (political) construct in the mirror of culture (and) theory
  • Critique of criticism: On the more recent Europe theses by Robert Menasse.
  • Recent debates on Europe in the historical cultural studies of the 21st century
  • The House of Europe: On the difficulty of loving a building site that remains one
  • Part III: Europe
  • A fiction? Current constructions of Europe as an idea, concept, image, cultural conception
  • On the price of freedom and accessible books : some remarks on the concept of East Central Europein current discussions
  • Working on Europe: About a flamboyant project of young intellectuals
  • Part IV: Europe and Europeans
  • An identity-forming unit?
  • Europe and the concept of empire
  • Between small states and the European public: Anthologies on the subject of Europe Reflections on the 'good Europeans' in the phase of Brexism
  • Part V: Images of Europe in film and contemporary literature
  • Utopias and dystopias
  • Europe as utopia and dystopia in the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Lars von Trier
  • Maps, zones: Figurations of Europe in Lars von Trier's early films
  • Believe in Europe? The community of states in two contemporary documentaries
  • Europe on the high seas: Sea voyage with Hans Pleschinski's novel Brabant (1995)
  • The neoliberal decomposition of democracy in Alexander Schimmelbusch's novel Hochdeutschland.
  • Crisis or Revolution? Brexit as reflected in literature and film. An overview.

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