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The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado) (2002)
Journal Article
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2002). The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado). Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/1463620022000013983

In 1989 the collection of drawings and short-stories in Galizan-Portuguese Fogo cruzado was published with an untitled and introductory non-literary text prepared by its authors. The process of its creation, publishing and reception was an extreme ex... Read More about The monolingualism of identity or aporias from the end of the world: (indicial notes on Fogo cruzado).

A fatal German marriage: the national subtext of Fassbinder's Die Ehe der Maria Braun (2001)
Journal Article
Uecker, M. (2001). A fatal German marriage: the national subtext of Fassbinder's Die Ehe der Maria Braun. German Life and Letters, 54(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00188

The article explores the connections between the development of Maria Braun's marriage and the political and economic conditions which made the economic miracle of the nineteen-fifties possible. Whereas Fassbinder scholarship has tended to seek paral... Read More about A fatal German marriage: the national subtext of Fassbinder's Die Ehe der Maria Braun.

The Mad Doctors: Medicine and Literature in Finisecular Spain (1996)
Journal Article
Cardwell, R. A. (1996). The Mad Doctors: Medicine and Literature in Finisecular Spain

This essay forms the prolegomenon to what will be a major study of a particular aspect of the history of ideas and the cultural experience in Spain between 1880 and 1920 presently being written. This book will consider and analyse the relationships,... Read More about The Mad Doctors: Medicine and Literature in Finisecular Spain.

Fractured families--united countries?: family, nostalgia and nationbuilding in Das Wunder von Bern and Goodbye Lenin!
Journal Article
Uecker, M. Fractured families--united countries?: family, nostalgia and nationbuilding in Das Wunder von Bern and Goodbye Lenin!. New Cinemas, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.5.3.189_1

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
M. Uecker, D. Göttsche, H. Budd, & G. Haberlah (Eds.), Norms, normality and normalization: papers from the postgraduate summer school in German Studies, Nottingham, July 2013. Nottingham ePrints

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
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawrance, J. Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile. Presented at Historians of Medieval Iberia

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
Hellebust, R. (2013). Russian anti-literature. University of Nottingham

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.

Das rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uecker, M. Das rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen. Presented at Sixth Bradford International Colloquium on Contemporary German-Language Literature

The article discusses the rhetorical strategies underlying Hans Magnus Enzensberger's presentation of his work as an author, editor and poet.

Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
Book
Palfreyman, R. (2013). Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed. University of Nottingham

Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 feature-length silhouette animation Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) includes a number of striking examples of animal bodies, ranging from composites, machine-animals and monsters to a dramatic... Read More about Animal magic: shape-shifting bodies in Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed.