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Author: Karen J. Leeder Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198159100 Category : German poetry Languages : en Pages : 396
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This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic. Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which were imposed upon them, radicalizing notions of the subject, of history, of language, of the poetic enterprise itself. The volume also assesses what will remain - after the fall of the Wall, and the revelations of the 'Stasi' files - of this radical poetic project. This unique study examines the poetry of some fifty writers from both the official and the underground publishing scenes, offering them up as a case-study in the vexed negotiations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and as a contribution to the rewriting of German literary history after 1945.
Author: Karen J. Leeder Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198159100 Category : German poetry Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic. Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which were imposed upon them, radicalizing notions of the subject, of history, of language, of the poetic enterprise itself. The volume also assesses what will remain - after the fall of the Wall, and the revelations of the 'Stasi' files - of this radical poetic project. This unique study examines the poetry of some fifty writers from both the official and the underground publishing scenes, offering them up as a case-study in the vexed negotiations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and as a contribution to the rewriting of German literary history after 1945.
Author: Cheryl Dueck Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004485821 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 246
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 marked the end of East Germany’s socialist regime and a new beginning for a unified German Federal Republic. Cultural historians agree that the event caused one of the deepest rifts in time and thinking seen by an entire generation of Germans—a rift that left its mark on the psyche of every citizen, challenging notions of the personal and the political, and crashing traditional understandings of the individual and the collective self. In this bold rethinking of the question, Cheryl Dueck goes beyond the social, political, and psychological discourses that Marx and Freud, Foucault and Lacan viewed as the initiators of modern (socialist) identities to explore the literature and discourse of the quest for unity of the female subject. Reading such authors as Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, Helga Königsdorf, and Helga Schubert, Dueck traces the striking fissures which run through time and through the female self, haunting women within the socialist project. The book shows how two generations of women writers have struggled consciously and systematically in their letters, aesthetic writings, and literary production to create a new language to express their own sense of self within a restrictive socialist and patriarchal system. Rifts in Time and in the Self offers an unprecedented look at the reconceptualizations of the female subject during several phases of GDR history, and women writers’ persistent attempt to carve out spaces of identity and community.
Author: Paul O'Doherty Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004654860 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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This volume is the first comprehensive single study of Jewish themes in any of the post-1945 German literatures. It presents literature on Jewish themes by Jewish and non-Jewish authors in the cultural, social and political context of the Soviet Zone/GDR during the entire 45 years of its history from 1945 to 1990. It offers a brief history of Jews in the GDR, before looking, in four chronologically ordered chapters, at the history of publishing on Jewish themes in the GDR. Some 28 texts by 19 different authors, including Anna Seghers, Stephan Hermlin, Arnold Zweig, Franz Fühmann, Johannes Bobrowski, Jurek Becker, Stefan Heym, Günter Kunert, Christa Wolf and Helga Königsdorf, are then singled out for closer analysis. Such themes as historical anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, Jewish assimilation, Heine, Marx, Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish survival, and Jews in the GDR are all discussed in the book. The volume also offers evidence of the political influences on publishing on Jewish themes at various stages in the GDR's history. In addition, a structured bibliography of some 1100 items is offered, approximately 750 of which were published in the GDR with a Jewish content or theme. The study should be of interest to students of contemporary German literature and politics, the GDR, and of Jewish studies in the wider context.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004333959 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 494
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Obwohl die DDR nunmehr ein abgeschlossenes Kapitel in der deutschen Geschichte geworden ist, halt die Auseinandersetzung um das, was von ihr bleibt, auch im Abstand von mehr als zehn Jahren an. Selbst nach dem deutsch-deutschen Literaturstreit unmittelbar nach der Wende, der seinerseits schon Ruckblicken und Bilanzierungen ausgesetzt wurde, bleibt der Stellenwert der Literatur in und aus der DDR ein umstrittenes Terrain. Ungeachtet dessen, dass es Einhelligkeit in literarischen Fragen ohnehin nicht geben kann, sind die Urteile zur Literatur der DDR naturlich auch von den Erfahrungen und Erlebnissen mit der DDR gepragt. In diesem Band haben wir uns fur eine Sicht von aussen und von innen gleichermassen interessiert.
Author: Matthias Konzett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113594122X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1159
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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.
Author: Meg H. Brown Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443864358 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 270
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This study shows that Cervantes’s works actively influenced the literature of a number of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This time period was marked by numerous significant events, including World War I, the first attempts at democracy, the rise of the Nazis, World War II, the division of Germany, and the eventual reunification of Germany. Representations of characters created by Cervantes reflect the shifting viewpoints of monarchism, imperialism, communism, fascism, socialism, and capitalism. A number of German-speaking authors of this time creatively modify Don Quixote, vacillating between regarding Don Quixote as a fool or a hero. The emphasis here is on the question of how an author uses Cervantes’s Don Quixote and The Conversation of the Dogs to come to terms with his or her own preoccupations in a given socio-political context. This book explores literary works by German-speaking authors that engage in an intertextual play with a text written by Cervantes.
Author: Rolf Jucker Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9789042008694 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : de Pages : 300
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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ian WALLACE: Foreword Rolf JUCKER: Einleitung Überblicksartikel Katrin BOTHE: Der Text als geologische Formation. 'Archäologisches Schreiben' als poetologisches Programm im Werk Volker Brauns Dieter SCHLENSTEDT: Empfang der Barbaren. Ein Motivfeld bei Volker Braun. Gilbert BADIA: Zur Rezeption von Volker Brauns Werken in Frankreich Alain LANCE: 'Ein Freund, ein guter Freund, Das ist das schönste, was es gibt auf der Welt' Dennis TATE: '[...] vielleicht nur für Franz geschrieben': Volker Braun's intertextual tributes to his special relationship with Franz Fühmann Paul PETERS: Mysteriöse Übergänge. Anmerkungen zu einem Motiv bei Volker Braun Yasuko ASAOKA: Begriffe für Grenzlinien in Volker Brauns Werken der Zeit 1990-2001 Rolf JUCKER: Aspekte gesellschaftskritischer Literatur seit 1989: Einige Bemerkungen mit Bezug auf zwei Gedichte von Volker Braun Prosa Wilfried GRAUERT: Nach der Natur leben. Zivilisationskritik in Volker Brauns Der Wendehals Anna CHIARLONI: Das Wirklichgewollte. Eine Interpretation Lyrik Klaus SCHUHMANN: Warum soll ich Mode werden - Volker Brauns Gedicht 'Lagerfeld' Peter GEIST: 'Worte und Knochen' - 'Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Gedicht 'Andres Wachtlied' Ruth J. OWEN: Time in Volker Braun's Poetry Theater Moray McGOWAN: 'Machen wir uns auf in das Land hinein.' Volker Braun's Übergangsgesellschaft: 'Übergangstheater', 'übergangenes Theater', 'Metatheater'? Götz WIENOLD: Volker Braun, Böhmen am Meer: Gedruckte Fassungen und einige Lesarten Schriften Gerd LABROISSE: Interpretative Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Georg-Büchner-Preises 2000: Die Verhältnisse zerbrechen Carol Anne COSTABILE-HEMING: 'Zur Sache Deutschland.' Volker Braun Takes Stock Verzeichnis der BeiträgerInnen
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