By Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse
Fanatics were responding to literary works because the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. extra lately, a couple of technological know-how fiction, myth, media, and video game works have came upon committed fan followings. the arrival of the web has introduced those teams from really restricted, face-to-face firms to simply obtainable international groups, during which fan texts proliferate and are greatly learn or even extra generally commented upon. New interactions among readers and writers of fan texts are attainable in those new digital communities.
From Star Trek to Harry Potter, the essays during this quantity discover the realm of fan fiction--its reasons, the way it is created, how the fan reports it. Grouped through subject material, essays disguise subject matters comparable to style intersection, sexual relationships among characters, personality building via narrative, and the position of the beta reader in on-line groups. The paintings additionally discusses the terminology utilized by creators of fan artifacts and reviews at the results of technological developments on fan groups.
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Ein Gott, der ‚nicht war’! Deutlich wird, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit Jefta und seine Tochter 27 Problemen des Judentums für Feuchtwanger keinerlei Rekurs auf biblischjüdische Glaubensvorstellungen einschließt. Deshalb glaube ich auch nicht, dass das ‚Hauptthema des Romans’ in einem ‚Ringen um den Begriff von Gott und Israel’ bestehe,13 sondern es gilt für den Autor von Jefta und seine Tochter dasselbe wie für Heine: die Bibel ist ihm ein großartiges historisches Dokument, ein Buch, das wundervolle Kunstwerke enthält, ein weltgeschichtlich überaus wichtiges Buch.
So auch resultiert Geschichte hier aus dem Zusammenstoß von Altem und Neuem, Nahem und Abgelegenem, Zufälligem und Geplantem, Erwartetem und Überraschendem; aus Materiellem und Ideellem, Individuellem und Gesellschaftlichem, Nationalem und Übernationalem. In diesem Geschichtsbild stimmen Intention und Ergebnis von Handlungen keineswegs überein. Jede Handlung hat ihre Voraussetzungen, ihre Konsequenzen wie ihren Preis (sie fordert ihre Opfer). Widersprüche erweisen sich als Ursachen aller geschichtlichen Bewegung.
409-10. 388. 35 Ibid. 36 41 Harold von Hofe, ‘Lion Feuchtwanger and America’, in John M. , Lion Feuchtwanger. 3350 (here 42). 410. This page intentionally left blank Ian Wallace Hangmen also die. Varieties of Collaboration Hangmen also die (1943) is generally regarded today as one of the most important anti-Nazi films to come out of Hollywood. Besides exploring the troubled collaboration between Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht during the making of the film, this chapter focuses on its depiction of the underground resistance in Prague following the assassination of the Reichsprotektor, Reinhard Heydrich.