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Twilight memories : marking time in a culture of amnesia / Andreas Huyssen.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: DD260.3 .H89 1995

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Huyssen, Andreas.
Published: New York : Routledge, 1995
Locale: Germany
Contents: Escape from amnesia : the museum as mass medium
After the wall : the failure of German intellectuals
Nation, race, and immigration : German identities after unification
Memories of utopia
Paris/childhood : the fragmented body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Fortifying the heart totally : Ernst Jünger's armored texts
Alexander Kluge : an analytic storyteller in the course of time
Postenlightened cynicism : Diogenes as postmodern intellectual
In the shadow of McLuhan : Baudrillard's theory of simulation
Back to the future : Fluxus in context
Anselm Kiefer : the terror of history, the temptation of myth
Monuments and Holocaust memory in a media age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.

Escape from amnesia : the museum as mass medium -- After the wall : the failure of German intellectuals -- Nation, race, and immigration : German identities after unification -- Memories of utopia -- Paris/childhood : the fragmented body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Fortifying the heart totally : Ernst Jünger's armored texts -- Alexander Kluge : an analytic storyteller in the course of time -- Postenlightened cynicism : Diogenes as postmodern intellectual -- In the shadow of McLuhan : Baudrillard's theory of simulation -- Back to the future : Fluxus in context -- Anselm Kiefer : the terror of history, the temptation of myth -- Monuments and Holocaust memory in a media age.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
ISBN: 0415909341
041590935X
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
Physical Description: x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Germany--Intellectual life. Germany--Civilization. Germany--History--1933-1945--Historiography. Memory in literature. German literature--History and criticism.

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