Julia Hell: 2 books
Post-Fascist Fantasies
Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1997
Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. Various critics have argued that these socialist realist fictions were monolithic attempts to translate Communist dogma into the realm of aesthetics. Julia Hell argues...
The Conquest of Ruins
The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and...