{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-mythmaking-in-german-postwar-culture-hardback-9780810146686","title":"The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture (Hardback) 9780810146686","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndré Fischer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810146686, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages, 16 images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Assembling an interdisciplinary cast of mavericks and outsiders, AndrÉ Fischer presents a singular aesthetic history of postwar German myth. Sophisticated and meticulous, this book makes the long-overdue case for mythopoesis’s role in the post-fascist reorientation of experience and existence that democratic appeals to reason could not deliver entirely.” —Richard Langston, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDebunking myths plays a crucial role in media literacy, but doing so can let us overlook why myths are created in the first place and why we need them. AndrÉ Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar culture, from novelists Hans Henny Jahnn and Hubert Fichte, to sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys, and filmmaker Werner Herzog, to show that myth is an indispensable human practice in times of crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Against the background of the nineteenth-century visions of a new mythology and its ideological continuation in Nazism, new forms of mythmaking in the narrative, visual, and performative arts emerged as an aesthetic paradigm in postwar modernism. Boldly rewriting the cultural history of an era and setting in transitional, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture\u003c\/i\u003e counters the predominant narrative of an exclusively rational \u003ci\u003eVergangenheitsbewÄltigung \u003c\/i\u003e(“coming to terms with the past”). Far from being merely reactionary, the turn toward myth offered a dimension of existential orientation that had been neglected by other influential aesthetic paradigms of the postwar period. Fischer’s wide-ranging, transmedia account offers an inclusive perspective on myth beyond mere storytelling and instead develops mythopoesis as a formal strategy of modernism at large.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667407128,"sku":"9780810146686","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-mythmaking-in-german-postwar-culture-hardback-9780810146686","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}