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035 _a(OCoLC)663901477
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aUrang, John Griffith,
_d1975-
245 1 0 _aLegal Tender :
_bLove and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /
_cJohn Griffith Urang.
264 1 _aIthaca, N.Y. :
_bCornell University Library,
_c2010.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2014
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (236 pages):
_billustrations
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
505 0 _aIntroduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aAt first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the negotiation and reorganization of a surprising array of issues in East German public culture between 1949 and 1989. Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture. Throughout its forty-year existence the East German state was plagued with an ongoing problem of legitimacy. The love story's unique and unpredictable mix of stabilizing and subversive effects gave it a peculiar status in the cultural sphere. Urang shows how love stories could mediate the problem of social stratification, providing a language with which to discuss the experience of class antagonism without undermining the Party's legitimacy. But for the Party there was danger in borrowing legitimacy from the romantic plot: the love story's destabilizing influences of desire and drive could just as easily disrupt as reconcile. A unique contribution to German studies, Legal Tender offers remarkable insights into the uses and capacities of romance in modern Western culture.
546 _aIn English.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aRomance films.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01747951
650 7 _aRomance fiction, German.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01003020
650 7 _aLove
_xSocial aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01002800
650 7 _aLove in motion pictures.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01002811
650 7 _aLove in literature.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01002808
650 7 _aGerman fiction.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00941384
650 7 _aCivilization.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00862898
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM
_xEuropean
_xGerman.
_2bisacsh
650 6 _aAmour
_xAspect social
_zAllemagne (Est)
650 6 _aAmour au cinema.
650 6 _aAmour dans la litterature.
650 6 _aFilms d'amour
_zAllemagne (Est)
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aRoman allemand
_zAllemagne (Est)
_xHistoire et critique.
650 0 _aLove
_xSocial aspects
_zGermany (East)
650 0 _aLove in motion pictures.
650 0 _aLove in literature.
650 0 _aRomance films
_zGermany (East)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGerman fiction
_zGermany (East)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aRomance fiction, German
_zGermany (East)
_xHistory and criticism.
651 7 _aGermany (East)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01210274
651 0 _aGermany (East)
_xCivilization.
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/24499/
945 _aProject MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement II
945 _aProject MUSE - Archive Literature Supplement II
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