CUTG Proceedings Volume 1 (1999)

From Classical Shades to Vickers Victorious:
Shifting Perspectives in British German Studies

Papers delivered at the Conference of University Teachers of German
University of Leicester, 6-8 April 1998

Edited by Steve Giles and Peter Graves

DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS LIST

The papers collected in this volume reflect the far-reaching changes that have taken place across the spectrum of German studies in UK universities over the last decade or so. The subject areas dealt with range from 'traditional' literary topics with a focus on the classical period through to contemporary film, media and political studies, recent developments in aesthetic and critical theory, translation studies and linguistics. The volume confirms the dynamism and diversity of research in UK German Studies as we approach the millennium.

The Editors
Steve Giles is Reader in German Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham University. His recent publications include Bertolt Brecht and Critical Theory: Marxism, Modernity and the 'Threepenny' Lawsuit (1998) and the co-edited volume Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays (1998).

Peter Graves is Senior Lecturer in German at Leicester University. He has published extensively on post-war German writers from the East and West, and reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.

CONTENTS

Maike Oergel
Overshadowed by Antiquity? British and German Thoughts on the Formation of a Modern Identity 1750-1850

Richard Littlejohns
When the Saints... The Literary Canon

Derek McCulloch
Haydn in England, Haydn on England: An Austrian at the Court of King George

Heike Bartel
Language of Translation, Language of Poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin's Pindar-Fragmente

Axel Goodbody
From Raabe to Amery: German Literature in Ecocritical Perspective

Robert Atkins
Versions of Reality: Hochhuth's Effis Nacht, Fontane and Spielhagen

Judith Beniston
History and the Holocaust in Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter

Bill Dodd
Down but Not Out: Dolf Sternberger's Critique of Sprachwissenschaft

Jonathan West
A Functional-notional Grammar of Modern German

Alan Cornell and Ian Roe
A Valency Dictionary for English-speaking Learners of German

Andrew Webber
Kuhle Wampe, or How to Read a Film

Daniela Berghahn
Censorship in GDR Cinema: the Case of Spur der Steine

Rosemary Stott
The Reception of American Cinema in the GDR 1970-1989

Jean-Marc Trouille
Arte - Franco-German Venture or First Fully-fledged European Channel?

Nigel Thomas
The Role of the Bundeswehr in Post-Unification Germany

David Head and Marianne Howarth
Vickers Victorious? The Sale of Rolls-Royce Cars and Changing Media Perceptions of the Impact of Germany on the UK Business Environment