Friederike Eigler's Publications
I. BOOKS AND EDITED JOURNALS
General editor, The German Quarterly (2004-2006).
Gedächtnis und Geschichte in Generationenromanen seit der Wende. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2005.
Guest editor, special issue of Seminar on: "Reassessing Orientalism in German Studies." 41.3 (2005).
Editor (with Eric Langenbacher): Special Issue of German Politics and Society. Transformations of the Past in Contemporary German Politics and Culture. 23.3 (2005).
Edited (with Susanne Kord): The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Edited (with Peter Pfeiffer): Cultural Transformations in the New Germany: American and German Perspectives. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1993.
Das autobiographische Werk von Elias Canetti. Verwandlung-Identität-Machtausübung. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1988.
II. ARTICLES
"Lifting a Taboo? The Representation of Flight and Expulsion of Germans in Recent Multigenerational Novels by K.Schmidt, Dückers, Jirgl, and Hein." Generational Discourses in Contemporary German Literature and Culture. Ed. Susanne Vees-Gulani and Laurel Pfister. Camden House. Forthcoming.
"Zur Historisierung des Heimatbegriffs in Generationenromanen vor und nach 1989." The Germanic Review (2008).
"Zur Repräsentation traumatischer Orte in Texten von Dieter Forte, Stephan Wackwitz und Ruth Klüger." Über Gegenwartsliteatur. Interpretationen -- Kritik -- Interventionen. Hg. Mark Rectanus. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2008.
"Writing in the New : Cultural Memory and Family Narratives" German Politics and Society. Special Issue on "Transformations of the Past in Contemporary German Politics and Culture." 23.3 (2005): 16-41.
"Memory, Moralism, and Coming to Terms with the Present: Martin Walser and Zafer Senocak." Memory Traces: 1989 and the question of German cultural identity. Ed. Silke Arnold-de Simine. Oxford, UK: Lang, 2005. 55-78.
"Jenseits von Ostalgie: Phantastische Züge in 'DDR-Romanen' der neunziger Jahre." Seminar. Special issue on "Beyond 'Ostalgie': East and West German Identity in Contemporary German Culture". Ed. David Clarke and William Niven. 40.3 (2004): 191-206.
"(Familien-)Geschichte als subversive Genealogie: Kathrin Schmidts Gunnar-Lennefsen-Expedition." Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 2 (2003): 262-82.
"Nostalgisches und kritisches Erinnern: Martin Walsers Ein springender Brunnen und Monika Marons Pawels Briefe." The German Monitor. Monika Maron in Perspective: Dialogische Einblicke in zeitgeschichtliche, intertextuelle und rezeptionsbezogene Aspekte ihres Werkes. Ed. Elke Gilson. Amsterdam, Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 2002: 157-80.
"Designing a Third-Year German Course for a Content-Oriented, Task-Based Curriculum." Die Unterrichtspraxis. 34.2 (2002): 107-18.
"Engendering Cultural Memory in Selected Post-Wende Literary Text of the 1990s." Special issue of The German Quarterly on "Sites of Memory." Ed. Karen Remmler and Amir Eshel. 74.2 (2001): 392-406.
"Lou Andreas-Salomé." Women Writers in German Speaking Countries. Ed. Elke Frederiksen and Elisabeth Ametsbichler.
"Uwe Johnson: Author of the two Germanies? Reassessments and Appropriations since 1989." Publications of the Center for Contemporary German Studies. Special issue on "What Remains? East German Culture and the Postwar Public." Ed. Marc Silberman. Washington, DC: Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1997. 38-51.
"'Gesinnung' und 'Ästhetik:' Ruth Rehmanns kulturhistorische und autobiographische Spurensuche in Unterwegs in fremden Träumen. Begegnungen mit dem anderen Deutschland." Weimarer Beiträge 43.2 (1997): 255-270.
"Art and Money: Cultural Innovations within the Urban Setting of Prenzlauer Berg."
"Feminist Criticism and Mikhail Bakhtin's Dialogic Principle: Making the Transition from Literary Theory to Textual Analysis. Women in German Yearbook 11 (1995): 189-204.
"At the Margins of East Germany's 'Counter-Culture:' Elke Erb's Winkelzüge and Gabriele Stötzer Kachold's zügel los." Women in German Yearbook 9 (1994):145-162.
"'Gewissenlose Erkenntnis': Frauen-Bilder und Kulturkritik bei Elfriede Jelinek und Friedrich Nietzsche." Seminar 30.1 (1994): 44-58.
"Die Mauer in den Köpfen: Mechanismen der Ausgrenzung und Abwehr am Beispiel der Christa Wolf-Kontroverse." German Life and Letters 1 (1993): 71-81.
"The Responsibility of the Intellectual: The Case of the
"Trauerarbeit in Brigitte Schwaigers ?Lange Abwesenheit? als konfliktreiche Suche nach einer weiblichen Identität." The Germanic Review 1 (1992): 26-35.
"Bachmann und Bachtin: Zur dialogischen Erzählstruktur von Simultan." Modern Austrian Literature 3/4 (1991): 1-16.
"Individualismus und politisches Engagement: Ernst Fischers Positionen zum Austrofaschismus und zum Anschluß." Perspectives on the Anschluss: Remembering the Past--Overcoming the Past. Ed. Donald G. Daviau. Riverside CA: Ariadne, 1991.
"'Verlorene Zeit, gewonnener Raum': Sarah Kirschs Abschied von der DDR in Allerlei-Rauh." Monatshefte 2 (1991): 176-189.
"Wer hat Wilhelm Schüler zum Wilhelm Meister gebildet? Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre und die Aussparungen einer hermeneutischen Verstehens- und Bildungspraxis. Goethe Yearbook 3 (1986): 93-119.
"Die ästhetische Inszenierung von Macht: Thomas Manns Novelle 'Mario und der Zauberer'". Heinrich-Mann-Jahrbuch 2 (1984): 172-183.
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