CUTG Proceedings Volume 2 (2000)

German Studies towards the Millennium

Selected papers from the Conference of University Teachers of German,
University of Keele, September 1999

Edited by Christopher Hall and David Rock

DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS LIST

This volume is a collection of papers in German Studies. The wide range of subject areas dealt with reflects the diversity of research at UK universities at the turn of the century: political and social studies, media and cultural topics, literary issues, and recent developments in pedagogic and linguistic studies. The volume confirms the dynamism and diversity of current research in UK German Studies.

The Editors

Christopher Hall lectures in German at the University of Leicester and is Visiting Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Tampere in Finland.

David Rock lectures in German at the University of Keele. He has published widely on modern German literature and currently specialises in GDR and Romanian-German writers.

CONTENTS

Marianne Howarth
The Business of Politics; The Politics of Business. The GDR in Britain Before and After Diplomatic Recognition

Mechthild M. Matheja-Theaker
The Collapse of the German Welfare State: Women and Poverty

Jean-Marc Trouille
Germany and France - Promoting Mutual Understanding Through Cultural Bridges?

Stefan Wolff
Germany and Her Minorities Abroad

Rachel Palfreyman
Viewers and Villagers: Realism and Authenticity in Edgar Reitz's Heimat

Stuart Parkes
'Auschwitz und kein Ende': The Recent Controversies Surrounding Martin Walser

Ingo Cornils
Romantic Relapse? The Literary Representation of the German Student Movement

Ian Foster
Joseph Roth and Der Neue Tag

Peter Davies
Utopia Incorporated: The Lives of Stephan Hermlin in the GDR

Tanja Nause
Post-Wende Literature and Cultural Memory: Moments of Recollection in Thomas Brussig's Novel Helden wie wir

Gertrud Reershemius
Language Change - Low German in North-West Germany

Geraldine Horan / Christian Fandrych
First Steps Towards the Year Abroad: A Multi-Media Language and Culture Course

Winifred V. Davies
A Critique of Some Common Assumptions in German Work on Language and Education

Christopher Hall
The Effectiveness of CALL in Grammar Teaching. An Evaluation Using Error Analysis

Peter Hohenhaus
An Overlooked Type of Word-formation: Dummy-compounds in German and English

Nils Langer
On the Polyfunctionality of the Auxiliary tun

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