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Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these "asocials," for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that through intertextuality with the European fairy-tale tradition, the picaresque novels of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, and through an array of carnivalesque figures Grass creates an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a Stunde Null, that putative tabula rasa of 1945."--BOOK JACKET.
Günter Grass and His Critics
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 t...
Keine halben Sachen mehr
Die Lehrerin Salome Salomon liebt ihren Beruf, ihr Motorrad und ihre Kater (beide ordentlich kastriert), sonst liebt sie niemanden, sich schon gar nicht. Außer ihrer Mutter steht ihr nur eine Person nahe: Sonja, Halbghanaerin und Mitarbeiterin einer Karateschule. Ihr großes Problem: Sie verliebt sich immer in die falschen Männer. Salome, die klugen Kater und das kommunikative Motorrad bringen in ihrem Kampf gegen eine moralisch brüchige, oft brutale und kriminelle Männerwelt einige Männer zur Strecke, die es - so sehen es die Vier - nicht anders verdient haben. Unterstützt werden sie in ihrem Kampf durch ein selbstbewusstes Navi und einen depressiven Telecom Schaltkasten. Die fantasievolle und witzige Erzählung überrascht mit einem unerwarteten Finale.
Narrative as Counter-Memory
A pioneering study of German and Japanese postwar fiction, providing a broad cultural basis for understanding a half-century of responses to World War II from within the two societies.
Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum
The career of Günter Grass began dramatically in 1959, with the publication of his first novel. The Tin Drum brought instant fame to the thirty-two-year-old author and led to his receiving the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated into dozens of languages, the novel has sold over four million copies worldwide. Its status as a major text of postwar German literature, however, has not diminished its provocative nature. In both style and content, it continues to challenge scholars, teachers, and students. This volume, like others in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature, is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," provides the instructor with bibliographic information...
Metalepse im Werk von Günter Grass
Günter Grass hat sein Leben lang versucht, Grenzen zu überspringen und profiliert sich seit dem Anfang seiner künstlerischen Laufbahn als provokanter Grenzgänger zwischen zahlreichen ‚Welten‘, ohne diesen eindeutig zuzugehören. Saartje Gobyn zeigt auf, dass Grass auch innerhalb seiner Romane Grenzen überspringt, was in der Grassforschung bisher kaum bemerkt wurde. Weder Grass‘ Figuren noch seine Erzähler sind an ihre ‚Welten‘, in denen sie entworfen werden, gebunden. Sie bewegen sich frei durch die Romanwelten hindurch und erzeugen so häufig Metalepsen: alogische Überschreitungen zwischen der dargestellten Welt und der Welt, in der die Darstellung kreiert wird. Form und Funktion solcher Metalepsen werden in dieser Arbeit analysiert.
German Literature at a Time of Change 1989-1990
The volume brings together twenty-five scholars from British and German universities, many of them leading experts on Contemporary German Literature, in an exploration of the processes and implications of German unification from the literary point of view. A discussion of the intellectual climate which nurtured the 'peaceful revolution' in the GDR is followed by analyses of the work and attitudes of significant east German authors; an underlying theme is the loss of identity, the loss of Utopia. West German reactions to the questions of unity and identity are then analysed, and a series of comparative studies presented. Finally, themes of importance for the common German future are discussed...
