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Stereotype. and. Strategy. It is a common assumption that laughter embodies
national character. The English enjoy a special renown as a people of wit, for
example, whereas Germans are often accused of possessing no humor
whatsoever.
Stereotype. and. Strategy. It is a common assumption that laughter embodies
national character. The English enjoy a special renown as a people of wit, for
example, whereas Germans are often accused of possessing no humor
whatsoever.
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Although evaluative judgements fluctuated about Saphir, Heine and Borne
individually, German literary history as a genre was deeply inflected by the [
udenwitz stereotype since its central narrative turned around the imagination of
the years ...
Although evaluative judgements fluctuated about Saphir, Heine and Borne
individually, German literary history as a genre was deeply inflected by the [
udenwitz stereotype since its central narrative turned around the imagination of
the years ...
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Of course, given the prominence of stereotypes in all forms of joking, minority
figures are also especially vulnerable to humorous attack. Nonetheless, on
balance, humor would seem to offer an advantage to those on the social margins
since ...
Of course, given the prominence of stereotypes in all forms of joking, minority
figures are also especially vulnerable to humorous attack. Nonetheless, on
balance, humor would seem to offer an advantage to those on the social margins
since ...
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... for inciting laughter in one section of the audience incited negative stereotypes
about Jewish authorship in others. ... with its inherent tendency to undermine and
unsettle, Vicious Circles: juden'witz as Stereotype and Strategy 17 Conclusion.
... for inciting laughter in one section of the audience incited negative stereotypes
about Jewish authorship in others. ... with its inherent tendency to undermine and
unsettle, Vicious Circles: juden'witz as Stereotype and Strategy 17 Conclusion.
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... define categories of selfhood and otherness. The increasing currency of this
idea can be traced to its usefulness for the re-invention of identity, both by cultural
elites and by Saphir himself, probably the first target of the judenwitz stereotype.
... define categories of selfhood and otherness. The increasing currency of this
idea can be traced to its usefulness for the re-invention of identity, both by cultural
elites and by Saphir himself, probably the first target of the judenwitz stereotype.
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Inhalt
Atta Troll | 180 |
Cottas neglect and Heines individual reception | 189 |
Judenwitz in and as Literary History | 193 |
The core myth of German literary history | 195 |
The adaptation of the myth over time | 207 |
Continuity and caesura | 222 |
CONCLUSION | 224 |
TRANSLATONS | 229 |
Ludwig Börnes Serious Humor | 64 |
Börnes attitudes toward Jewishness and humor | 69 |
Börne as arts critic | 81 |
Affinities between Börne and Menzel | 91 |
Börnes direct political writings | 99 |
The antiJudenwitz backlash | 104 |
Menzel as Börne apologist | 114 |
Börnes response | 117 |
The BörneMenzel estrangement | 123 |
Börnes final shift | 133 |
Börnes individual reception | 136 |
CHAPTER 4 Who Gets the Job Now? Heinrich Heine and the J G Cotta Publishing House | 139 |
Heines early contact with Cotta | 144 |
Judenwitz and literary talent | 149 |
The Baths of Lucca | 157 |
The backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta | 173 |
Introduction | 231 |
The KilledOff Yet Still Alive and Kicking M G Saphir or Thirteen Dramatic Poets and a Magician Against One Lone Editor | 232 |
Come Here or Dear Public Look and Trust Whom You Please | 235 |
On Witz | 238 |
On Börne | 241 |
The Jews in Frankfurt am Main | 244 |
Theater Reviews | 247 |
Monograph of the German Post Snail A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans | 253 |
Letters from Paris | 259 |
Menzel the Frenchmens Scourge | 262 |
The Baths of Lucca | 266 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Secondary Sources | 317 |
Index | 327 |
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