Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (6)

UGent (6)

ULiège (6)

VUB (3)

KBR (2)

UCLouvain (1)

ULB (1)


Resource type

book (7)


Language

English (7)


Year
From To Submit

2019 (1)

2018 (2)

2014 (1)

2009 (1)

2006 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by

Book
The jargon of authenticity
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 0710208707 9780710208705 Year: 1986 Publisher: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

German novelists of the Weimar Republic : intersections of literature and politics
Author:
ISBN: 9781571134691 1571132880 9781571132888 9781571136718 1571134697 9786611949228 1281949221 1571136711 9781281949226 Year: 2006 Volume: *98 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability, polarization, and radicalism, the period witnessed the efforts of many German writers to play a leading political role, whether directly, in the chaotic years of 1918-1919, or indirectly, through their works. The novelists chosen range from such now-canonical authors as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Heinrich Mann to bestselling writers of the time such as Erich Maria Remarque, B. Traven, Vicki Baum, and Hans Fallada. They also span the political spectrum, from the right-wing Ernst Jünger to pacifists such as Remarque. The journalistic engagement of Joseph Roth, otherwise well known as a novelist, and of the recently rediscovered writer Gabriele Tergit is also represented. Contributors: Paul Bishop, Roland Dollinger, Helen Chambers, Karin V. Gunnemann, David Midgley, Brian Murdoch, Fiona Sutton, Heather Valencia, Jenny Williams, Roger Woods. Karl Leydecker is Reader in German at the University of Kent.


Book
The communicative event in the works of Günter Grass : stages of speech, 1959-2015
Author:
ISBN: 9781571139566 1571139567 9781787441743 1787441741 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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.


Book
Selected works : plays, stories, essays, and poems
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9781571139931 1571139931 9781787444591 1787444597 Year: 2019 Publisher: Rochester: Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

First representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer Lenz, suited for the classroom and anyone interested in German literature, the European Enlightenment, or the theory and practice of theater.


Book
Brecht, Turkish theater, and Turkish-German literature : reception, adaptation, and innovation after 1960
Author:
ISBN: 1787441962 1640140247 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Uncovers the central role of Brecht reception in Turkish theater and Turkish-German literature, examining interactions between Turkish and German writers, texts, and contexts.


Book
Writers and politics in Germany, 1945-2008
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9781571135803 9781571134011 1571135804 1571134018 9781571137548 9786612795572 1571137548 1282795570 Year: 2009 Publisher: Woodbridge Boydell & Brewer

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

George Orwell said that all writing is political; but the writers of some nations and some periods are more political than others. German writers after 1945 have exemplified such heightened politicization, and this book considers their contribution to the democratic development of Germany by looking principally at their directly political, non-fictional writings. It pays particular attention to writers and the student movement of the 1960s and '70s, when some proclaimed the death of literature and called for a turn to direct political action. Yet writers in both parts of Germany gradually came to identify with their respective states, even if the idea of one Germany never entirely disappeared. The unification of 1989-1990, in which this idea astonishingly became reality, posed a major (and some would say unmet) challenge to writers in both East and West. After looking at this period of intense political activities, the book considers the continuing East/West division and changing attitudes to the Nazi past, asking whether the intellectual climate has swung to the right. It also asks to what extent political involvement has been a generational project for the immediate postwar generation and is less important for younger writers who see the Federal Republic as a "normal" democratic state.


Book
Witnessing, memory, poetics : H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1782043284 1571135898 Year: 2014 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910-1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), two modernist scholar-poets who settled in England but never met, present new ways of reconceptualizing the nature of witnessing, literary testimony, and the possibility of a "poetics" after Auschwitz. Adler, a Czech Jew who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, was a prolific writer of prose and poetry, but his work remained little known until Sebald, possibly the most celebrated German writer of recent years, cited it in his 2001 novel, Austerlitz. Since then, a rediscovery of Adler has been under way. This volume of essays by international experts on Adler and Sebald investigates the connections between the two writers to reveal a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust that advances our understanding of the relationship between literature, historiography, and autobiography. In doing so, the volume also reflects on the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation, demonstrating the shifting norms in German-language "Holocaust literature." Contributors: Jeremy Adler, Jo Catling, Peter Filkins, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Kirstin Gwyer, Katrin Kohl, Michael Krüger, Martin Modlinger, Dora Osborne, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Lynn L. Wolff. Helen Finch is an Academic Fellow in German at the University of Leeds. Lynn L. Wolff is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in German at the University of Stuttgart.

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by