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  1. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: [2010]; © 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    At 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... more

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    At 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

     
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    Subjects: Geschichte; German fiction; Love in literature; Romance fiction, German; Romance films; Prosa; Romantische Liebe <Motiv>; Film
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  2. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: [2010]; ©2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    At 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... more

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    At 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.

     
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    Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Subjects: Romance films; Love in literature; German fiction; Romance fiction, German; Romance films; Love in literature; German fiction; Romance fiction, German; Love; Love in motion pictures; German fiction.; Love in literature.; Romance fiction, German.; Romance films.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Eros and Exchange -- -- 1. Wares of Love: Socialist Romance and the Commodity -- -- 2. Love, Labor, Loss: Modes of Romance in the East German Novel of Arrival -- -- 3. Corrective Affinities: Love, Class, and the Propagation of Socialism -- -- 4. W(h)ither Eros? Gender Trouble in the GDR, 1975–1989 -- -- 5. Eye Contact: Surveillance, Perversion, and the Last Days of the GDR -- -- Coda: A Chameleon Wedding -- -- Works Cited -- -- Index
  3. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: [2010]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    At 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... more

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    At 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.

     
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  4. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
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  6. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
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  7. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
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    Series: Signale. modern German letters, cultures, and thought
    Subjects: Roman; Film; Liebe <Motiv>; Love stories, German; German fiction; Romance films; Love in literature; Love in motion pictures; Love
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite [203] - 216
  8. Legal Tender
    Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: [2010]; © 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    At 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... more

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    At 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

     
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  9. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
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  10. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York ; Cornell University Library

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    At 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.

     
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  11. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
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  12. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York ; Cornell University Library

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    At 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.

     
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  13. Legal tender
    love and legitimacy in the East German cultural imagination
    Author: Urang, John Griffith
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0801460069; 0801476534; 9780801460067; 9780801476532
    Series: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Love stories, German; German fiction; Romance films; Love in literature; Love in motion pictures; Love; Romantische Liebe <Motiv>; Prosa; Film
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction : 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