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Fruhe Neuzeit volume Band 199
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (368 pages).
8) Revolting families: toxic intimacy, private politics, and literary realisms in the German sixties
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Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (215 pages)
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Narratologia volume Band 43
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (308 pages)
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Publication Date
1996.
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1 online resource (216 pages).
Description
Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill deviates from the theoretical mainstream. O'Neill applies the principles of structuralist and poststructuralist narratology to a selection of narratives from both...
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New directions in German studies volume 5
Publication Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 184 p.
Description
"This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct...
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Publication Date
2007
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ix, 253 p.
Description
The profound political and social changes Germany has undergone since 1989 have been reflected in an extraordinarily rich range of contemporary writing. Contemporary German Fiction focuses on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the new Germany that has emerged from the second half of the 1990s onwards and offers the first comprehensive account of key developments in German literary fiction within their social and historical context....
15) Humor and irony in nineteenth-century German women's writing: studies in prose fiction, 1840-1900
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Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
222 p.
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Studien zur deutschen Literatur volume Band 211
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (366 pages).
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Publication Date
2010
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Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. With the help of wide-ranging reception data, the work of Holocaust scholars, as well as cultural and legal reflections on the concept of guilt, Donahue elucidates not only these works, but the wider critical climate...
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Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.
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Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language?...
