Rhine Crossings

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Rhine Crossings explores the conflicts and resolutions that have characterized the relationship between France and Germany over the past two centuries. Despite their varying outlooks on life and style (the French esprit and the German wesen), and despite three bloody wars (the Franco-Prussian and the two world wars), there has always been and still is a vital intellectual, political, and cultural exchange between these former "archenemies." The essays in this book detail the admiration and antagonism in French and German attempts to seek each other out while keeping their individual senses of self. Focusing on representative works of literature, film, and philosophy, the contributors identify the problems vexing these countries (war, economic competition) as well as possible solutions (the Maastricht treaty, increasing youth exchange). From the literary salons of the eighteenth century to the trenches of the twentieth, from a love-hate relationship to one of cooperation and peace, this book investigates the unique and volatile dialectic between these two nations and cultures.

Part I. Introduction

France and Germany: A Tempestuous Affair
Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman

Part II. Pre-Romantic Currents

1. Re-constructing a “Gendered” Bildung: Mme de Staël’s and Sophie von la Roche’s Epistolary Fiction
Beatrice Guenther
2. “Vous appellés cela betrügen?”: Slippery French Morals and German Bourgeois Virtues in Selected Writings by G. E. Lessing
Heidi M. Schlipphacke
3. The Dying Poet: Scenarios of a Christianized Heine
Sarah Juliette Sasson

Part III. From Fin de Siècle to Modernist Connections

4. Girls, Girls, Girls: Re-Membering the Body
Terri J. Gordon
5. Hygiene, Hard Work, and the Pursuit of Style in Baudelaire and Nietzsche
Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees
6. Pierrette, assassine assassinée: The Portrait of Lulu in Two Tableaux
Jennifer Forrest
7. Benjamin Between Berlin and Paris: The Metaphorics of the City
Michael Payne
8. À fleur du dialogue: Georges Bataille, Karl Blossfeldt, and the Language of Flowers
Kimberley Healey

Part IV. World War II and Its Legacy

9. An Unwanted Connection: Aristide Maillol and Nazism
William J. Cloonan
10. Of Heroes and Traitors: Two Early Films by René Clément
Philip Watts
11. Between Collaboration and Resistance: Ernst Jünger in Paris, 1941–44
Elliot Neaman

Part V. Postmodern Reflections

12. Romy Schneider, La Passante du Sans-Souci: Discourses of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Feminism, and Myth
Nina Zimnik

13. History/Paris-Berlin/History
Sande Cohen

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Western Europe
• History of Europe
• Germany
• France

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483336
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Rhine Crossings France and Germany in Love and War

edited by Aminia M.Brueggemann & Peter Schulman

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R HINE C ROSSINGS 

R HINE C ROSSINGS

France and Germany in Love and War 

Edited by Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2005 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Rhine crossings : France and Germany in love and war / edited by Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6437-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Literature, Comparative—German and French. 2. Literature, Comparative— French and German. 3. Germany—Foreign relations—France. 4. France—Foreign relations—Germany. 5. National characteristics, German, in literature. 6. National characteristics, French, in literature. I. Brueggemann, Aminia M., 1961– II. Schul- man, Peter, 1964– PT123.F7R45 2005 830.9’358—dc22 2004014214

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C ONTENTS 

Part I. Introduction

France and Germany: A Tempestuous Affair Aminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman

Part II. Pre-Romantic Currents

Chapter 1 Re-constructing a “Gendered”Bildung: Mme de Staël’s and Sophie von la Roche’s Epistolary Fiction Beatrice Guenther

Chapter 2 “Vous appellés cela betrügen?”: Slippery French Morals and German Bourgeois Virtues in Selected Writings by G. E. Lessing Heidi M. Schlipphacke

Chapter 3 The Dying Poet: Scenarios of a Christianized Heine Sarah Juliette Sasson

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Part III From Fin de Siècle to Modernist Connections

Chapter 4 Girls, Girls, Girls: Re-Membering the Body Terri J. Gordon

Chapter 5 Hygiene, Hard Work, and the Pursuit of Style in Baudelaire and Nietzsche Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees

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Chapter 6 Pierrette, assassine assassinée: The Portrait of Lulu in Two Tableaux Jennifer Forrest 141

Chapter 7 Benjamin Between Berlin and Paris: The Metaphorics of the City Michael Payne

Chapter 8 À fleur du dialogue: Georges Bataille, Karl Blossfeldt, and the Language of Flowers Kimberley Healey

Part IV World War II and Its Legacy

Chapter 9 An Unwanted Connection: Aristide Maillol and Nazism William J. Cloonan

Chapter 10 Of Heroes and Traitors: Two Early Films by René Clément Philip Watts

Chapter 11 Between Collaboration and Resistance: Ernst Jünger in Paris, 1941–44 Elliot Neaman

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Part V Postmodern Reflections

Chapter 12 Romy Schneider,La Passante du Sans-Souci:Discourses of Vergangenheitsbewältigung,Feminism, and Myth Nina Zimnik

Chapter 13 History/Paris-Berlin/History Sande Cohen

Contributors

Index

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