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Books by Linda Shortt






German Narratives of Belonging(1st Edition)
Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century (Germanic Literatures)
by Linda Shortt
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-907975-88-2, ISBN: 1-907975-88-8

"Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post-modern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives of belonging by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Angelika Overath, Florian Illies, Juli Zeh, Stephan Wackwitz, Uwe Ti ..."






Memory and Political Change
(Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt, L. Shortt
Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-30200-6, ISBN: 0-230-30200-9

"While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultura ..."






Memory and Political Change
(Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-30199-3, ISBN: 0-230-30199-1

"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions."






German Narratives of Belonging
Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century
by Linda Shortt
236 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-56568-4, ISBN: 1-351-56568-0

"As Anne-Marie Fortier and Vikki Bell note, belonging is connected to the performative. By drawing on conventions which are repeated, the performativity of belonging produces what appears to be eternally fixed and reproducible. See Anne-Marie Fortier, Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space and Identity (Oxford: Berg, 2000), p. 5; Vikki Bell, 'Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction', in Performativity & Belonging, ed. by Vikki Bell ..."






German Narratives of Belonging
Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century
by Linda Shortt
133 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-56569-1, ISBN: 1-351-56569-9

"structure require some explanation. A striking feature is the polyvocality which he uses to address the reader. Similarly to Arno Schmidt, who also experimented with structure and language, Jirgl adapts the spelling of words and uses innovative inter-punctuation to filter intonations and inscribe emotions into the written word. This adds an extra layer for the reader, who can hear the emotional state of the characters while reading ..."






Debating German Cultural Identity since 1989(Updated)
(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
by Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Linda Shortt
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2011 by Camden House
ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-486-8, ISBN: 1-57113-486-7

"The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians, historians, writers, filmmakers, architects, and the wider public engaged in "memory contests" over such questions as the legitimacy of alternative biographies, West German hegemony, and the ..."






German Narratives of Belonging
Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century
by Shortt, Linda
Paperback, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-60053-2, ISBN: 0-367-60053-6






Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today
Edinburgh German Yearbook, volume 14 (Hardback)
by Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, Katya Krylova, Myrto Aspioti
Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 2021 by Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-64014-084-4, ISBN: 1-64014-084-0






Extraordinary - Ordinary / gewöhnlich - außergewöhnlich
by Ed. Gillian Pye, Christiane Schoenfeld, Christiane Schönfeld, Dagmar Paulus, Laura Thüring, Rose Simpson, Britta C. Jung, Joseph Twist, Linda Shortt, Dagmar Drabent, Lisa Marie Anderson, Julia Ilgner, Teresa Cañadas García, Michael Braun, Magdalena Rozenberg, Jürgen Barkhoff
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2017 by Hartung-Gorre
ISBN-13: 978-3-86628-601-6, ISBN: 3-86628-601-5

"TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction EXTRAORDINARY - ORDINARY / GEWÖHNLICH - AUßERGEWÖHNLICH DAGMAR PAULUS Remembering Two Mad Women: Female Madness and Society in Adalbert Stifter's Turmalin and Wilhelm Raabe's Im Siegeskranze LAURA THÜRING Poetik der Grenzerfahrung: Zum Phantastischen in Karl Mays Roman Ardistan und Dschinnistan im Horizont des Expressionismus ROSE SIMPSON "Nach dem gänzlichen Versagen der Gewohnheit": Ina Seidel's Transcen ..."

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