The aesthetics of mythmaking in German postwar culture:
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Beteilige Person: Fischer, André 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 2024
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Abstract:"Myths are a central part of our reality. But simply debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar culture, from novelists Hans Henny Jahnn and Hubert Fichte to sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys and filmmaker Werner Herzog, to show that mythmaking is a indispensible human practice in times of crisis. Against the background of mythologies based in nineteenth-century Romanticism and their ideological continuation of Nazism, new forms of mythmaking in the narrative, visual, and performative arts emerged in postwar modernism. Boldly rewriting the cultural history of an era in transition, The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture counters the predominant narrative of an exclusively rational Vergangenheitsbewältigung ("coming to terms with the past"). Far from being merely reactionary, the turn toward myth offered a dimension of existential orientation that had been neglected by other influential aesthetic paradigms of the period. Fischer's wide-ranging, transmedia account offers an inclusive perspective on myth beyond storytelling and instead develops mythopoesis as a formal strategy of modernism at large."
Umfang:vii, 304 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780810146686