Finding the Foreign - Hardcover

Suin Roberts; Robert Schechtman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847181023 ISBN 13: 9781847181022

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

"Finding the Foreign" includes the proceedings of the thirteenth annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley (2005), which explored constructions of the “foreign” in the German-speaking context in language, literature, music, and visual media. The collected articles discuss how various tropes and rhetorical techniques have historically been employed to position cultural works on a spectrum from familiar to the strange. The multi-disciplinary range of approaches contained in this volume reveals how diverse the portrayals of the foreign have been, as well as how contingent and varying the delineation between the foreign and the familiar can become.

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About the Author

Suin Roberts is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Indiana University–Purdue University, Fort Wayne. She received her Ph.D. in German at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. Her research interests include politeness theory, intercultural communication, and German migrant literature. Robert Schechtman is an Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is writing on the German discourse of community (Gemeinschaft) in the Weimar Republic. His research interests include German intellectual history, social aspects of visual culture and new media, gender theory, and semiotics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847181023
• ISBN 13: 9781847181022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295
• Editor: Suin Roberts, Robert Schechtman