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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"German national identity"”.
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The Persistance of National Ideology and Myth: Attempting to Re-Define German National Identity in Post-War Europe
Germany emerged from post-war Europe economically, politically, and culturally devastated. The process of rebuilding the state meant severing German society from its pre-war roots, changing international and domestic acuity of the German people as violent and racially defined. These postwar …
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The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen".
… element of the self-mythologization of German national identity. The problem, however, with adapting the Nibelungen myth for the purpose of creating a German identity, be it in the medieval epic, the Nibelungenlied, or Fritz Lang's 1924 film, Die Nibelungen, is that this model of …
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Construction of national identity and national pride of Germans in the intercultural context
<p>National identity and patriotism are very problematic and highly sensitive concepts in contemporary Germany. Many scholars agree that a positive national identity is crucial for a nation’s well-being. This research attempts to investigate the process of forming a national identity and the …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
<p>The German Romantic monolingual paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and …
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The German Moment in English Musical Culture, 1820-1859
… argues that a distinct and highly consequential German moment crystallised in English musical culture between the 1820s and 1850s. Across these four decades, music written by German and Austrian composers went from being received as an esoteric and essentially foreign cultural import to becoming …
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The construction of national identity in the historiography of Czech art
National identity can be expressed in many ways by individuals, groups and states. Since the nineteenth century, Central Europe has been undergoing rapid changes in the political, social and cultural spheres, which was reflected in the self-definition of the nations living in this region, and in …
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Das Schmunzeln im Spiegel (kolonialer) Erinnerung:parodierte nationale Selbstbilder in Christian Krachts Imperium und Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt
… novel Measuring the World explore facets of German identity against the backdrop of aspects of German colonial history. In my thesis, I argue that with their satirical representations of the German Self in the encounter with the (colonial) Other, the authors reflect critically on the …
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Německá národní identita po znovusjednocení
Tato práce zkoumá vývoj německé národní identity po sjednocení Německa v roce 1990. S využitím kvalitativní analýzy historických textů a socioekonomických průzkumů zkoumá, jak sjednocení ovlivnilo kolektivní i individuální vnímání identity Němců. Tvrdí, že sloučení odlišných východoněmeckých a …