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An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss
Discusses Weiss's plays, fiction, autobiography, and non-fiction prose. Pp. 22-25 illuminate "Die Ermittlung", an oratorio based on Weiss's 1964 attendance at the Frankfurt war crimes trial. He used actual documents both aesthetically and politically. 18 of the defendants appear with their real names, either defending themselves with the jargon of doing their duty or totally denying their guilt. Among the charges against these Nazis were conducting medical experiments, torture, and murder. Ch. 7 (pp. 107-129) elucidates Weiss's three-volume novel "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands", about resistance to Nazism in thought and action. The characters in the novel are based on members of the Rote Kapelle resistance group. Politics and creative thinking (art) are shown as complementary, not contradictory.
The Pathos of the Real
This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real—their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering—and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means. The works at the center of this study—by Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Claude Simon, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller—zero in on scenes of agony, destruction, and death with an astonishing degree of precision and detail. The strange and troubling nature of the appeal engendered by these sights is the subject of The Pathos of the Real. Robert Buch shows that the spectacles of suffering conjured ...
Understanding Peter Weiss
Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.
Finding the Way Home
These two parallel studies in Hamburg and London aim to provide an insight into the different ways in which young people with and without a migrant background live their everyday lives together. The book demonstrates how friendships, tensions, and sometimes adversities are negotiated. It shows how young people construct landscapes of risk and safety and how relations of ethnicity, class, and gender are lived differently in different socio-spatial contexts. In some situations young people develop enjoyable ways of living with differences, in others they live with tensions and conflicts. These may be experienced through notions of ethnicity, but sometimes through feelings of belonging to places and/or specific youth cultures which transcend ethnic differences more often than class differences.
Pathos and Anti-Pathos
Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah, either by those directly involved in it or those writing its history, must always bear witness to the affective aftermath of the event, the lingering emotional effects of suffering. Drawing on the History of Emotions and on trauma theory, this monograph offers a critical study of the ambivalent attributions and expressions of emotion and “emotionlessness” in the literature and historiography of the Shoah. It addresses three phenomena: the metaphorical discourses by which emotionality and the purported lack thereof are attributed to victims and to perpetrators; the rhetoric of affective self-control and of affective distancing...
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Bilder des Schreckens
Wohl kein zweiter Roman hat gerade die linke Intelligenz dieses Landes in den letzten Jahren so nachhaltig beschäftigt wie "Die Ästhetik des Wider stands"l von Peter Weiss, deren drei Bände jeweils im Abstand von drei Jah ren 1975, 1978 und 1981 erschienen sind. Zusammen mit den "Notizbüchern 1971-1980"2, die 1981 gemeinsam mit dem abschließenden dritten Band der Trilogie publiziert wurden, nimmt dieser Text zumindest in den 70er und 80er Jahren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur eine markante Sonderstellung ein. Von der nachhaltigen Wirkung, die Weiss' Text bisher ausgeübt hat, zeugen 3 neben den zahlreichen Rezensionen , die die sperrige Prosa kommentiert haben, sowohl die rege S...
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Vollständig überarbeitet, aktualisiert und deutlich erweitert, liegt die zweite Auflage des Killy Literaturlexikons nun abgeschlossen vor. Damit wird ein renommiertes Standardwerk der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft für Wissenschaftler, Studenten und Literaturliebhaber unserer Zeit in neuer Qualität vorgelegt. Erstmals erschienen in den Jahren 1988 bis 1993, ist der Killy heute ein in Fach- und Literaturkreisen bekanntes und renommiertes Nachschlagewerk, das bio-bibliografische Artikel zu allen wichtigen deutschsprachigen Autoren vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart präsentiert. Die knapp 8.000, gut lesbaren Artikel bieten umfassende Einführungen zu den vorgestellten Autoren und bestec...
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to 'dealing with the German past.' There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality. In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from German...
