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Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038189671
Author : Siegfried Mews
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571130624
A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works. When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled thepostwar rebirth of German letters, auguring "a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction." Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with The Tin Drum, Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. SiegfriedMews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in publicdiscourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additionalinsight into the reception of Grass's works. Siegfried Mews is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Author : Gertrud Bauer Pickar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UCAL:B3440040
Author : Norris Wilson Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015004888817
Author : Noel Thomas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789027240057
This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Günter Grass, under which Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Mann, Hundejahre und Der Butt. It is of interest to everyone who wants to get a better understanding of the novels of this famous German writer.
Author : J. Preece
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230286603
This book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the Twentieth-century. It shows in particular how his experiences as a teenage Nazi shaped his thinking, both in his novels and his role as critic and campaigner, from The Tin Drum (1959), his most famous novel, to My Century (1999), from his public protest against the building of the Berlin Wall (1961) to his diatribes against Helmut Kohl in the late 1990s. This new paperback edition includes new material on his last two books, My Century and Crabwalk including a revised Bibliography and Chronology.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0156687933
Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780239446
Günter Grass was Germany’s foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir Peeling the Onion astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military wing of the SS, a ruthless component of the Nazi war machine, in the closing months of World War II. Grass also wrote memorably about the German student movement, feminism, and German reunification, and was a key influence on magical realist authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, as well as on the popular novelist John Irving. Günter Grass is the first biography in English of this Nobel Prize–winning writer. Julian Preece introduces both Grass’s key works and political activities, chronicling his interaction with major figures from literary and public life like holocaust poet Paul Celan, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and cofounder of the Red Army Faction Ulrike Meinhof. From Grass’s campaigning as a citizen for the anti-Nazi resistor and Social Democrat leader Willy Brandt to his more recent invectives against free-market capitalism, Preece places Grass’s fiction and public work in the context of Cold War European politics and post-unification Germany, painting an indelible portrait of a writer who reinvented the postwar German novel and redefined the role of literary commitment.
Author : Michael Hollington
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000000196514
Author : Nicole A. Thesz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139566
A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156155516
The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author : S. Frank
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230615472
Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0151011761
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Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156014165
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the story of two old men in Berlin -- one a former East German cultural functionary, the other a former mid-level spy -- observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. Grass weaves a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.
Author : Rebecca Braun
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191562235
This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterised Grass's relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.