Foreign Language Study : German

This dictionary of the discourse of guilt lists those keywords of the early postwar period that were especially relevant within the context of the discourse of guilt. They are words that victims, perpetrators and those who showed indifference used to talk more...

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In "Performance and Femininity," Arons examines a series of texts by eighteenth-century German women in order to illuminate how women writers of the time used theater and performance both to investigate female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant cultural discourse of femininity. Arons's study focuses on works featuring heroines who, for the most part— like their authors— lead lives with public dimensions, primarily by working as actresses.  The texts she chooses all call attention to the difficulties that the eighteenth-century conception of the self as sincere and antitheatrical presented for women.  By highlighting the fact that the social audience that determines a woman's reputation is almost always a fickle and untrustworthy "reader" of female subjectivity, these works expose the untenable position into which the discourse of sincerity placed women, paradoxically requiring them to perform the very "naiveté "that was, by definition, not supposed to be performable. Arons's original argument takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, theatre history, and performance studies, and reveals how these women writers exposed ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempted to reproduce that act in their writing and in their lives. more...

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Sprechen sie Deutsch? You do now!. The Pocket Idiot's Guide to German Phrases is a handy, informative, and fun guide to all the phrases readers need to enjoy a visit to Germany, complete with the basics of German grammar and syntax and a compact German-English/English-German dictionary. • Nearly 1.7 million Americans travel to Germany each year for business and/or leisure—and most will find this book invaluable. • Full of current and classic phrases from every aspect of life and travel, along with useful travel tips and maps. • Easy-to-use pronunciation guide and verb, noun, and idiom charts. • Convenient, pocket-size format for on-the-go travelers. more...

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Master your German action words and speak confidently in your new language. While most verb books offer little more than conjugation charts, Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses coaches you in how to use conjugated verbs in context. In addition to hundreds of conjugated verbs, you get clear explanations, lots of lively examples, and many engaging exercises that help you remember tenses, and, equally important, know when and why to use them. more...

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The obvious gaps in standardisation in German baroque poetics are partially filled by poetological prefaces. Despite this, however, taught genre norms remain quite tentative. This absence of binding norms affords an artistic latitude, the significance of which has hitherto been underestimated. The study provides a systematic analysis of the theoretical genre standards laid down in poetological manuals and prefaces. The wealth of material presented also makes the volume useful as a compendium of genre history. more...

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