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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484820903321

Autore

Knapp Marcela

Titolo

Cultural Controversies in the West German Public Sphere : Aesthetic Fiction and the Creation of Social Identities / / by Marcela Knapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030400866

3030400867

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 331 pages)

Disciplina

306.0943

943

Soggetti

Ethnology - Europe

Culture

Culture - Study and teaching

Europe, Central - History

European literature

Europe - Politics and government

European Culture

Cultural Theory

History of Germany and Central Europe

European Literature

European Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Considerations -- 3. Confirming a Secular World Order: Ingmar Bergman's The Silence -- 4. A Moving World: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- 5. The Creation Of the Social: Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy -- 6. The Social Visibility of Corporeality: The Rebel Youth Films in the Fifties -- 7. Fiction Between Representation and Quotation: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Garbage, the City and Death -- 8. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book develops a theory of aesthetic fiction's impact on social identities. Throughout five case studies, the author develops the



argument that social identities are nurtured by and may even emerge through the conflict between different aesthetic expressions. As it creates affective structures, narrative fiction enables the development and formation of political and cultural identities. This work is part of a field of research that deals with the aesthetics of the everyday and the idea of social aesthetics. It argues for a central role for the arts in the creation and formation of modern society. Social identities emerge in response to aesthetic-sensual patterns of perception. Focusing on five West German public debates in the years 1950 to 1990, this work sheds light upon the transformation of social reality through the discursive adaption of art. Dr. Marcela Knapp is a cultural sociologist. She lives and works in Berlin.