Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

Legal Tender Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / John Griffith Urang. - 1 online resource (x, 224 p.) : ill. ; - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Eros and exchange -- Wares of love : socialist romance and the commodity -- Love, labor, loss : modes of romance in the East German novel of arrival -- Corrective affinities : love, class, and the propagation of socialism -- W(h)ither Eros? : gender trouble in the GDR, 1975/1989 -- Eye contact : surveillance, perversion, and the last days of the GDR -- Coda : a chameleon wedding.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780801460067 0801460069

LCCN:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Love--Social aspects--Germany (East)
Love in motion pictures.
Love in literature.
Romance films--History.--Germany (East)
German fiction--History and criticism.--Germany (East)
Love stories, German--History and criticism.--Germany (East)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany (East)--Civilization.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PT3723.5.L6 / U73 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 843/.085090914