Margaret McCarthy Knihy

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Author Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines.

Pop literature of the 1990s enjoyed bestselling success, as well as an extensive and sometimes bluntly derogatory reception in the press. Since then, less censorious scholarship on pop has emerged to challenge its flash-in-the-pan status by situating the genre within a longer history of aesthetic practices. This volume draws on recent work and its attempts to define the genre, locate historical antecedents and assess pop’s ability to challenge the status quo. Significantly, it questions the ‘official story’ of pop literature by looking beyond Ralf Dieter Brinkmann’s works as origin to those of Jürgen Ploog, Jörg Fauser and Hadayatullah Hübsch. It also remedies the lack of attention to questions of gender in previous pop lit scholarship and demonstrates how the genre has evolved in the new millennium via expanded thematic concerns and new aesthetic approaches. Essays in the volume examine the writing of well-known, established pop authors – such as Christian Kracht, Andreas Neumeister, Joachim Lottman, Benjamin Lebert, Florian Illies, Feridun Zaimoğlu and Sven Regener – as well as more recent works by Jana Hensel, Charlotte Roche, Kerstin Grether, Helene Hegemann and songwriter/poet PeterLicht.

Featuring a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use samples for both personal and business letters, this book serves as a valuable resource for effective communication. It offers practical guidance on various aspects such as format, style, tone, and appropriate forms of address, ensuring readers can craft their correspondence with confidence and professionalism.

I've Kissed You For The Last Time is a book about lost and found relationships in the author's first 40 years. His self-betrayal contributes to the betrayal of the woman he loves and the demise of his first marriage. It is the loss of her love that teaches the author the depths of grief and the heights of love. Through the loss of love, the author regains the self he had betrayed. He decides that only in being true to one's self can a lover have anything to offer to a loved one. But the journey to recovery turns out to be much more painful than the author had imagined. He thought he was ready for the end of marriage. He was wrong! He finally knew he had kissed his wife for the last time. But, it would be a while before he could kiss her ghost goodbye.