Crime stories
criminalistic fantasy and the culture of crisis in Weimar Germany
1st ed.
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Word Count
45,500 words, Guess
Page Count
182 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecrimestoriescrim00herz
- ISBN-139781845454395
- ISBN-101845454391
- Goodreads6858527
- Library of Congress Control Number2008052535
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- OCLC Control Number232128516
- Better World Books9781845454395
- Open LibraryOL22796251M
Classifications
- DDC306.0943/09042
- LCCDD239 .H48 2009
Description
The Weimar Republic (1918{u2013}1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public{u2019}s reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic{u2019}s self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines.
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Series Statement
- Monographs in German history -- v. 22
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