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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.
German History and German Identity
Uwe Johnson's major novel, Jahrestage, is recognized as one of the most important and ambitious works of post-war German literature. The core to this novel is remembrance, and Jahrestage is a stunning requiem for the victims of twentieth-century German history. D.G. Bond concentrates on the text, analysing the novel and the calendar form of this work, and paying particular attention to the ways in which even the minutest details of Johnson's narrative reveal its historical themes. The author discusses Johnson's poetics, offers readings of his other major works, and considers the most recent trends in Johnson reception. He shows how an uncompromising view of German identity after the crimes of the Third Reich constitutes the very heart of Johnson's work.
The Berlin Wall
Although physically removed, the Berlin Wall will continue to live on in history and in the pages of this anthology as a symbol of the struggle between the most powerful ideologies of the twentieth century.
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The Family Novel
This book is a comparative study of the family novel as a distinctive literary genre. It concentrates on three prototypical family novels, the Chinese trilogy, The Turbulent Trilogy (1906-1940) by Pa Chin; the British trilogy, The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) by John Galsworthy; and the French novel, Les Thibault (1922-1940) by Roger Martin du Gard. The book argues for the establishment of a new generic category, the Family Novel as a sub-genre of the novel. It describes the four distinctive characteristics; its realism and use of chronology; its sense of ritual and community; the centrality of family conflict; and its unique form.
Die Ästhetik des Schönen und Erhabenen
Welche Wirkung hat Friedrich Schillers Ästhetik des Schönen und Erhabenen auf das Werk Uwe Johnsons? Die Spannung zwischen der Versöhnungssehnsucht des Schönen und der Verlusterfahrung des Erhabenen liegt Johnsons Romanen strukturgebend zugrunde. So konfrontiert Johnson einerseits seine Protagonisten mit geschichtlichen und persönlichen Erfahrungen der Zerrissenheit und der Entfremdung, des Verlusts und der Ohnmacht. Eine Haltung der erhabenen Seelenstärke erweist sich dabei als Strategie der Lebensbewältigung. In dialektischer Wechselwirkung damit steht andererseits die uneinlösbare Sehnsucht nach Harmonie, Versöhnung und spielerischem Einklang mit der Welt. What influence does Fri...
Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy
Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his pseudonymous authors repeatedly disassociate themselves from philosophy. But although it seems clear that Kierkegaard never regarded himself as a philosopher, there can be no doubt that his writings contain philosophical ideas and insights and have been profoundly influential in a number of different philosophical traditions. The present volume documents these different traditions of the philosophical reception of Kierkegaard's thought. The articles featured here demonstrate the vast reach of Ki...
