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Contemporary German Writers, Their Aesthetics and Their Language

Author : Arthur Williams
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary German Writers, Their Aesthetics and Their Language written by Arthur Williams and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic and linguistic concerns of German-language writers are explored against the backdrop of a readership in transition. Two essays examine intertextuality as a concept and as a phenomenon in the work of Christa Wolf, before the first main set (aesthetics) addresses narrative techniques (Jurek Becker, Wolfgang Hilbig, Hans Joachim Schädlich), formal experimentation (Ror Wolf, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Hanns-Josef Ortheil), allegory (Christoph Ransmayr), metaphor (Eveline Hasler), feminine aesthetics (Brigitte Kronauer, Anne Duden), and links between literature and photography (Rolf Dieter Brinkmann). The second main group presents a series of analyses of language as problem and practice: Sprachlosigkeit (Ilse Aichinger, Robert Schneider), logocentricity and etymology (Heinrich Böll, Elisabeth Reichart), and authenticity and cliché (Werner Schwab, Rainald Goetz), Ralf Schnell's concluding essay is an assessment of a situation which allows writers more freedom as the shackles of the past are cast off.

Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture

Author : Brigid Haines
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113552
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture written by Brigid Haines and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers... were delivered at a conference, Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture, which was held in honour of Professor Rhys W. Williams ... the conference took place, from 31 August to 2 September 2008, at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog Hall" --Foreword.

Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German

Author : Lyn Marven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199277761
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German by : Lyn Marven

Download or read book Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German written by Lyn Marven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and Kerstin Hensel (from the GDR). It looks at images of the body and their relationship to the structures of their writing as well as analysing the social, cultural, and political contexts.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136816038
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture written by John Sandford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.

Encyclopedia of German Literature

Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594122X
Total Pages : 1159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Questioning the Canon

Author : Christine Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110674394
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Questioning the Canon written by Christine Meyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradition? Building on Edward W. Said’s contrapuntal readings and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the voice of the subaltern, this monograph examines the ways in which Rafik Schami, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu have re-read, challenged, and adapted the German canon. Similar to other writers in postcolonial contexts, their work on the canon entails an inquiry into history and a negotiation of their relation to the texts and representations that define the "host" nation. Through close analyses of the works of these non-native German authors, the book investigates the intersection between politics, ethics, and aesthetics in their work, focusing on the appropriation and re-evaluation of cultural legacies in German-language literature. Opening up a rich critical dialogue with scholars of German Studies and Postcolonial Theory, Christine Meyer provides a fresh perspective on German-language minority literature since the reunification.

Renegotiating Postmemory

Author : Maria Roca Lizarazu
Publisher : Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud
ISBN 13 : 164014045X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Renegotiating Postmemory written by Maria Roca Lizarazu and published by Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud. This book was released on 2020 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the disappearance of the eyewitness generation and the globalization of Holocaust memory, this book interrogates key concepts in Holocaust and trauma studies through an assessment of contemporary German-language Jewish authors.

Edinburgh German Yearbook 11

Author : Helmut Schmitz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139788
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh German Yearbook 11 written by Helmut Schmitz and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium. While sociologists have long agreed that the problems of modern and contemporary subjectivity crystallize in the issue of romantic relationships and love (e.g., Luhmann, Illouz, Beck, etc.), the theme of love, so crucial to the foundational text of modern German literature, Goethe's Werther, all but disappeared from German prose literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet over the past fifteen years German-language literature has witnessed an explosion of novels with "Liebe" in their titles as well as novels that centrally focus on intersubjective erotic and emotional relationships. A number of major contemporary writers (Treichel, Walser, Kermani, Ortheil, Maron, Zaimoglu, Genazino) have written Liebesromane or novels in which significant sociohistorical questions are refracted through the love relationships of their protagonists. German film likewise has increasingly thematized love relationships under postromantic conditions, e.g. in the films of the Berlin school. Simultaneously, the development of both feminist and LGBTQ politics over the past decades has exploded the heteronormative discourses ofdesire in a way that has both expanded and enriched the lovers' discourse, while recent developments of urban (hetero)sexuality have expanded the previously available models of expressing erotic relationships in ways that are reminiscent of the utopian ending of Goethe's first version of Stella. The present collection offers a wide-ranging set of essays on these developments. Contributors: Esther K. Bauer, Sven Glawion, Silke Horstkotte, Sarra Kassem, Maria Roca Lizarazu, Helmut Schmitz, Angelika Vybiral. Helmut Schmitz is Reader in German at the University of Warwick. Peter Davies is Professor and Head of German at the University of Edinburgh.

German Writers and the Politics of Culture

Author : Paul Cooke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140393875X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book German Writers and the Politics of Culture written by Paul Cooke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany has been rocked by scandals showing the level to which the Stasi, the East German Secret Police, controlled these same writers. This is the first study in English to systematically explore how the writers have responded to the challenge of dealing with the Stasi from the 1950s to the present day.

The Right to Difference

Author : Nicole Coleman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213275X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Difference written by Nicole Coleman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity

Searching for a New German Identity

Author : Theresa M. Ganter
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110483
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Searching for a New German Identity written by Theresa M. Ganter and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theresa M. Ganter investigates Heiner Muller's use of the Geschichtsdrama as a tool in his search for post-World War II and post-reunification German identity in 'Germania Tod in Berlin' (1956/1971) and 'Germania 3 Gespenster am Toten Mann' (1996), respectively.

Contemporary German Fiction

Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521860789
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary German Fiction written by Stuart Taberner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These accessible and informative essays explore the central themes and contexts of the best writers working in Germany today.

Speaking the Taboo

Author : Paul Cooke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015425
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Speaking the Taboo written by Paul Cooke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Hilbig is a writer who is widely acknowledged as one of the most important to have emerged from the former GDR. In this study, the first in English, Paul Cooke explores the interplay of aesthetic and social 'taboos', as defined by the official discourse of the GDR, in a cross-section of Hilbig's critical writing, poetry and prose. The protagonists in Hilbig's texts suffer from a profound crisis of identity due to the disparity between the state's official presentation of life in the East and their own experience. Cooke argues that through their exploration of the 'taboo', i.e. that which is excluded from the state's official discourse, Hilbig's characters attempt to break through the banal rhetoric of the ruling elite in order to realise an authentic sense of self.

The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel

Author : David Simpson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521359023
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel written by David Simpson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional resource, this 1988 book provides a comprehensive anthology in English of the major texts of German literary and aesthetic theory between Lessing and Hegel. The texts are crucial to an understanding not only of the Romantic period itself, but also of the foundational arguments of literary theory.

Modern German Literature

Author : Michael Minden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745657257
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Modern German Literature written by Michael Minden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of international cultural impact. It explains, for instance, how specifically German and Austrian conditions shaped major contributions to European literary culture such as Romanticism and the ‘language scepticism’ of the early twentieth century. From the First World War until reunification in 1990, Germany’s defining experiences have been ones of catastrophe. The book provides a compelling overview of the different ways in which German literature responded to historical disaster. They are, first, Modernism (the ‘Literature of Negation’), second, the literature of totalitarian regimes (Third Reich and German Democratic Republic), and third the various creative strategies and evasions of the capitalist democratic multi-medial cultures of the Weimar and Federal Republics. The volume achieves a balance between textual analysis and cultural theory that gives it value as an introductory reference source and as an original study and as such will be essential reading for students and scholars alike.

Women Writers and National Identity

Author : Stephanie Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436813
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and National Identity written by Stephanie Bird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women Writers and National Identity, Stephanie Bird offers a detailed analysis of the twin themes of female identity and national identity in the works of three major twentieth-century German-language women writers. Bird argues for the importance of an understanding of ambiguity, tension and contradiction in the fictional narratives of Ingeborg Bachmann, Anne Duden and Emine Özdamar. She aims to demonstrate how ambiguity is itself central to the development of an understanding of identity and that literary texts are uniquely able to point to the ethical importance of ambiguity through their stylistic complexity. Bird gives close readings of the three writers and draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to elucidate the complex nature of individual identity. This book will be of interest to literary and women's studies scholars as well as Germanists.

Forms of Life

Author : Andreas Gailus
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749978
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Forms of Life written by Andreas Gailus and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. Forms of Life develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of "life" as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought. At the core of this vitalist strand of thought, Gailus maintains, lies a persistent emphasis on the dynamics of formation and deformation, and thus on an intrinsically aesthetic dimension of life. Forms of Life brings this older discourse into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of biopolitics and vitalism, while also developing a rich conception of life that highlights, rather than suppresses, its protean character. Gailus demonstrates that life unfolds in the open-ended interweaving of the myriad forms and modalities of biological, ethical, political, psychical, aesthetic, and biographical systems.