Dr Simon Ward's Outputs (3)

Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture (2005)
Book
Stewart, J. C., & Ward, S. (Eds.). (2005). Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture. Peter Lang

This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, litera... Read More about Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture.

The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945 (2005)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2005). The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945. Modern Language Review, 100(2), 412-428

Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, literature employed the railway network to investigate the experience of modernity. Rather against expectation, this remains the case after 1945. Informed by Wolfgang Schivelbusch's history of... Read More about The Passenger as Flâneur?: Railway Networks in German-language fiction since 1945.

Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space (2005)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2005). Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space. In S. Arnold-de Simine (Ed.), Memory traces : 1989 and the question of German cultural identity (281-308). Peter Lang

This essay collection examines the dynamics of memory organization and the way it varies among different media and modes of discourse in post-unification Germany. German unification has put the post-war period into a historical perspective. Such a ru... Read More about Material, Image, Sign: on the Value of Memory Traces in Public Space.