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Author:

Parker, Joshua, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2009029134

Title:

Tales of Berlin in American literature up to the 21st century / by Joshua Parker.

Publisher:

Brill Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 426 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.
Berlin (Germany)--In literature.
Literatur.
Berlin.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-416) and indexes.

Contents:

Prologue: "a smaller but more intense orchestration" -- American space -- American Berlin across three centuries -- A tale of Berlin -- How American is it -- Toy houses and playing-card lawns -- "German" roots -- Rags, riches and rooming houses -- The great divorce -- Water crossings -- "This is our armageddon" -- Ruined landscapes, ruined women -- Women with attachments: mermaids, drink and drowning -- City of night -- "Certain tendencies": queer Berlin -- Underground Berlin -- "Something was different, but nothing had changed" -- Contaminating city -- Just off the Kurfurstendamm: spy fiction -- The garden and the forest: natural space in Berlin -- The weather in Berlin -- Isolating Berlin -- Naturalizing the Wall -- Escape from Berlin -- Family reunions: searching for someone in Berlin -- Women and children first: taming history -- Contemporary voices: re-storing mythologies -- Conclusion.

Summary:

Prologue: "a smaller but more intense orchestration" -- American space -- American Berlin across three centuries -- A tale of Berlin -- How American is it -- Toy houses and playing-card lawns -- "German" roots -- Rags, riches and rooming houses -- G the great divorce -- Water crossings -- N "this is our armageddon" -- Ruined landscapes, ruined women -- Women with attachments: mermaids, drink and drowning -- City of night -- "Certain tendencies": queer berlin -- Underground berlin -- "Something was different, but nothing had changed" -- Contaminating city -- Contents -- Just off the kurfurstendamm: spy fiction -- The garden and the forest: natural space in Berlin -- The weather in Berlin -- Isolating Berlin -- Naturalizing the wall -- Escape from Berlin -- Family reunions: searching for someone in Berlin -- Women and children first: taming history -- Contemporary voices: re-storing mythologies -- Conclusion

Series:

Spatial practices, volume 22

ISBN:

9004312099
9789004312098
9004312080
9789004312081

OCLC:

(OCoLC)928615197

LCCN:

2015047187

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)