Mererid Puw Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mererid Puw Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mererid Puw |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7603-6809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing and the West German Protest Movements
The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture ranging from graffiti and flyers to agit-prop poetry and autobiographical prose. By turns witty, provoca…
Vietnam wird zur Hure gemacht’
The Vietnam conflict catalysed the FRG's protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and a symptomatic reading of texts associated with the conflict provides insight into the complex positions both of those movements and of the FRG itself. Sexual politics proves to be a key issue within such writing, to be explored here through images of women. These images feature most frequently in poems protesting about the Vietnam conflict and in journalism and…
Autobiography by Women in German
The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Laughing their Heads off
The Blaubartmärchen rewards study because it encodes key notions about gender, order, and the nature of fairy tale. In contrast to comic French and English traditions, the canonical German Blaubartmärchen is serious and tragic. However, a rich, forgotten nineteenth–century tradition of popular German Bluebeard comedies exists. Franz von Pocci’s Kasperliade (1859) seems to promote conservative authority structures but subtextually evokes carnivale…
The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature
‘Bluebeard’, in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. Using the idiom of literary criticism, this study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from 17th-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical, often …
The tale of Bluebeard in German literature
"'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force." "Using the idiom of literary criticism, the study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from seventeenth-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonica…
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The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature
‘Bluebeard’, in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. Using the idiom of literary criticism, this study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from 17th-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical, often …
The tale of Bluebeard in German literature
"'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force." "Using the idiom of literary criticism, the study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from seventeenth-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonica…
Narratives of Origin
Laughing their Heads off
The Blaubartmärchen rewards study because it encodes key notions about gender, order, and the nature of fairy tale. In contrast to comic French and English traditions, the canonical German Blaubartmärchen is serious and tragic. However, a rich, forgotten nineteenth–century tradition of popular German Bluebeard comedies exists. Franz von Pocci’s Kasperliade (1859) seems to promote conservative authority structures but subtextually evokes carnivale…
Autobiography by Women in German
The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Vietnam wird zur Hure gemacht’
The Vietnam conflict catalysed the FRG's protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and a symptomatic reading of texts associated with the conflict provides insight into the complex positions both of those movements and of the FRG itself. Sexual politics proves to be a key issue within such writing, to be explored here through images of women. These images feature most frequently in poems protesting about the Vietnam conflict and in journalism and…
Writing and the West German Protest Movements
The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protesters, who produced an extraordinary textual culture ranging from graffiti and flyers to agit-prop poetry and autobiographical prose. By turns witty, provoca…
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