The shocking ballad picture show : German popular literature and cultural history

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    • Cheesman, Tom

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The shocking ballad picture show : German popular literature and cultural history

Tom Cheesman

Berg, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and indexes

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Description

This book introduces anglophone readers to the ballad picture show, a cultural institution which anticipated both the cinema and the tabloid press.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - "God's Butcher" and "Marie the Merciless"
  • popular/literary interactions
  • families on the road, or - four centuries of hard-heartedness
  • killing the prodigal son, or - the politics of popular enlightenment
  • murdering mothers, or - infanticide and lynching, womanhood and nationhood
  • Gothe's "Novelle", or - the underside of high literature
  • appendix - fourteen shocking ballad texts.

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