Hell shows how the Third Reich was inspired by the Roman Empire--but, weirdly, more by its ruins than its heights, seeing in them a mark of its greatness and lasting legacy.
Hell shows how the Third Reich was inspired by the Roman Empire--but, weirdly, more by its ruins than its heights, seeing in them a mark of its greatness and lasting legacy.
Instead of falling back on tired theories of totalitarianism, Hell offers a highly literate and literary analysis of the 'ideological fantasies' that underlie the literature of the GDR."-- Patricia A. Herminghouse, University of Rochester
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues to the contrary that they were in fact complex fictions sharing the theme of antifascism, the founding discourse of the German Democratic Republi...
This interdisciplinary work uses the concept of the ruin as an approach to the study of modernity, asking whether there is an intrinsic logic of "ruin" at work in modernity.
This interdisciplinary work uses the concept of the ruin as an approach to the study of modernity, asking whether there is an intrinsic logic of "ruin" at work in modernity.
