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Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Ser.: Uncanny Creatures : Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture by Christophe Koné (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press

ISBN-100472039733

ISBN-139780472039739

eBay Product ID (ePID)5064622586

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NameUncanny Creatures : Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectEurope / Germany, General, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Sports & Recreation, History

AuthorChristophe Koné

SeriesSocial History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-008365

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter I. Doll Thinking: A Hermeneutic Method. The Wooden Doll Olimpia in E.T.A. Hoffman's The Sandman (1816) Chapter II. Doll Thinking: An Aesthetic Investigation. Oskar Kokoschka's Fluffy Alma-Doll by Hermine Moos Chapter III. Doll Thinking: A Kinetic Approach. Lotte Pritzel's Wax Dolls Chapter IV. Doll thinking: An Epistemological Method. Hans Bellmer's Papier M'ché Dolls Epilogue Bibliography Index

SynopsisGermany held a monopoly on the manufacture and export of bisque toy dolls in Europe before WWI. Yet, dolls' omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking world has so far not been properly addressed. In demonstrating this cultural affinity for dolls, Christophe Koné draws upon a range of stories and seminal essays on dolls, as well as toys, sculptures, paintings, and photographs. He examines how E.T.A. Hoffmann's romantic tale The Sandman (1815) has been a major source of inspiration for German-speaking doll makers because of how it centers imagination and inventiveness. Using Hoffmann's tale as an early example of an amalgam between doll thinking and making in German culture, Koné shows how it initiated a genealogy of doll thinkers (Freud & Jentsch), writers (Rilke), painters (Kokoschka), photographers (Bellmer), and makers (Pritzel). Uncanny Creatures then explores how this unusual interest in human-like figures continues a long tradition of thought devoted to conceptualizing "things," from Immanuel Kant's theory of the thing-in-itself to Martin Heidegger's lecture on the thing, and Eduard Mörike or Rainer Maria Rilke's thing-poems. Because dolls occupy a liminal space--not quite things and more than mere objects--they appear as uncanny creatures which have held a fascination for writers, thinkers, and artists alike. Uncanny Creatures moves past the Freudian discourse of fetishism to propose a new reading of doll artifacts in German culture centered on their ability to evoke a feeling of uncertainty and unsettlement in the viewer.

LC Classification NumberGV1219.K736 2024