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Article: Das 'deutsche Buch' in der Debatte um nationale Identitat und kulturelles Erbe.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Das 'deutsche Buch' in der Debatte um nationale Identitat und kulturelles Erbe. Ed. by MICHAEL KNOCHE, JUSTUS H. ULBRICHT, and JURGEN WEBER. Gottingen: Wallstein. 2006. 228 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8353-0062-0.
This volume, based on a series of lectures given in Weimar, literally in the shadow of the fire-ravaged Herzogin Anna Amalia-Bibliothek, investigates the 'German book' in its various guises as an indicator and symbol of German culture and nationhood. It touches on questions of national memory and identity, the collective 'book' as a 'lieu de memoire', as icon, as warning.
The volume is divided into three sections, one historical, a second ...