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Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521876704
New essays for students of German's best-known living author and his works, including The Tin Drum.
Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:805102834
Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828246
Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works.
Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521483921
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Author : Alex Donovan Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000797640
This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grass’s thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radicalism and affirming the need for German society to resist the rise of extreme ideologies.
Author : J. Preece
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Nicole A. Thesz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040001615
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.
Author : Stuart Taberner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135780
Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.
Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Timothy Bruce Malchow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Collective memory in literature
ISBN : 9781640140851
The first book to examine the connection between gender and memory in Grass's oeuvre, which is especially timely in light of current concerns about male privilege.
Author : John David Pizer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110725100
This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.
Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521663911
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Author : Todd Herzog,Anna Senuysal,Tanja Nusser
Publisher : Verlag Wilhelm Fink
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783846761939
25 Years Berlin Republic takes stock of the state of German unification a quarter of a century into the ongoing project that is the Berlin Republic. Thirteen scholars, artists, and public figures from diverse backgrounds document the changing hopes and fears, successes and challenges, that face the republic as it negotiates its way through the 21st century. Taking up a broad assessment of German culture ranging from sports to religion, painting to map-making, film to foreign policy, these studies combine personal experiences with critical analysis in order to understand the Berlin Republic today. The resulting portrait reveals a complex, diverse, and constantly-developing Republic that continues to ask the same essential question that has been at the center of discussions since the dramatic events that gave birth to the Republic: "Sind wir ein Volk?"
Author : Bernhard Malkmus
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441146151
The first comprehensive English-language study of the modern German picaresque tradition.