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Fractured families--united countries?: family, nostalgia and nationbuilding in Das Wunder von Bern and Goodbye Lenin!
Journal Article

The article compares the role and construction of nostalgia in two of the most successful German films released in 2003, Das Wunder von Bern and Goodbye Lenin!. While both films portray a close connection between male adolescence, incomplete families... Read More about Fractured families--united countries?: family, nostalgia and nationbuilding in Das Wunder von Bern and Goodbye Lenin!.

Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013
Book

A collection of 12 papers delivered at the DAAD Postgraduate Summer School in German Studies "Norms, Normality and Normalization". Matthias Uecker: Introduction: Norms, normality and normalization; Jürgen Link: Crisis between ʻDenormalizationʼ and... Read More about Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013.

Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile
Conference Proceeding

This paper examines the political and juridical theories expounded in Allegationes super conquesta insularum Canarie contra Portugalenses, a brief prepared in 1436 or 1437 by Alfonso de Cartagena, bishop of Burgos and Castilian legate to the Council... Read More about Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile.

Russian anti-literature
Book

To support the myth of Russian literature’s unique social mission, its critics, historians, and creators since the time of Pushkin have used various strategies to present it as inherently nomoclastic – as somehow standing apart from established Europ... Read More about Russian anti-literature.