{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-mythmaking-in-andrzs-fischer-9780810146686","title":"The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e Myths are a central part of our reality. But merely debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar culture, from novelists Hans Henny Jahnn and Hubert Fichte, to sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys, and filmmaker Werner Herzog, to show that mythmaking is an indispensable human practice in times of crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Against the background of mythologies based in nineteenth-century romanticism and their ideological continuation in Nazism, fresh forms of mythmaking in the narrative, visual, and performative arts emerged as an aesthetic paradigm in postwar modernism. Boldly rewriting the cultural history of an era and setting in transition, \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture\u003c\/i\u003e counters the predominant narrative of an exclusively rational \u003ci\u003eVergangenheitsbewältigung\u003c\/i\u003e (\"coming to terms with the past\"). Far from being merely reactionary, the turn toward myth offered a dimension of existential orientation that had been neglected by other influential aesthetic paradigms of the postwar period. Fischer's wide-ranging, transmedia account offers an inclusive perspective on myth beyond storytelling and instead develops mythopoesis as a formal strategy of modernism at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e André Fischer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810146681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810146686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"André Fischer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46136183390463,"sku":"9780810146686","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9da3e6b-c38c-44bb-833c-f3f3c22588d4.jpg?v=1726415931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-mythmaking-in-andrzs-fischer-9780810146686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}