Love as literature - Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Die große Liebe
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 12653
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Love, Eros, and Desire in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- ISBN
- 9781571139788
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Over the past two decades, love, intimacy and romance have re-emerged as a major theme in contemporary fiction and film, both in German and global culture (viz. the international acclaim of films like LaLa Land, or Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People; similar tendencies can be observed, for example, in Italy and France). The co-edited volume Love, Eros, and Desire in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture, conceived and developed by Schmitz, is the first major collection of academic essays on the representations of love in post-2000 German literature and culture. Schmitz’s substantial introduction (about 10,000 words) establishes the socio-historical and theoretical foundation of the entire field and thereby establishes a context for individual contributions (including his own chapter on Ortheil as submitted herewith). It surveys the most important contemporary theoretical approaches to the issue in the fields of social theory (Luhmann, Illouz, Giddens), Feminism (Evans), Literary and Cultural Studies Studies (Rougemont, Bobsin, Werber, Reinhardt-Becker, Egger Riedmüller). It furthermore also addresses the literary and cultural history of representations of love and romance from the period of Goethe’s Werther to Modernity and the present day. A substantial amount of inter- and cross-disciplinary research went into the introduction from the fields of Social Theory, Literary and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Genre Theory, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. Schmitz identified the theme, wrote the call for contributions and selected all the contributors (with assistance from the series editor, Prof Davies), organised most of the peer review (with the exception of his own contribution) and in accordance with Prof Davies, undertook all communication with contributors as regards revisions, following the peer review. The theme of the volume comes out of his current overarching research project for a monograph on representations of intimacy in contemporary German fiction.
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- Non-English
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