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German literature in a new century : trends, traditions, transitions, transformations

Author: Katharina Gerstenberger; Patricia Herminghouse
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Katharina Gerstenberger; Patricia Herminghouse
ISBN: 9781845455477 1845455479
OCLC Number: 213302452
Description: ix, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : German literature in a new century : trends, traditions, transitions, transformations / Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse --
Trends : literature in the public sphere / Patricia Herminghouse. The literary public sphere : a case for German particularity? / Sean M. McIntyre ; Intellectuals in the public sphere : an interview with Josef Joffe / Sean M. McIntyre ; "Literatur findet ... nicht nur auf Papier statt" : the eventization of literature in Hamburg / Donovan Anderson ; The Deutsches Literaturinstitüt Leipzig and the making of an author : Tobias Hülswitt hits the road for literature and ends up a writer / Rachel J. Halverson --
Traditions : history, memory, and narrative / Laurel Cohen-Pfister. Degrees of history in contemporary German narratives / Patricia Anne Simpson ; Luftkrieg revisited : contemporary responses to the Allied bombings of German cities / Sydney Norton ; An aesthetics of memory for third-generation Germans : Tanja Dückers's Himmelskörper / Laurel Cohen-Pfister ; The continuation of countermemory : Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde / John Pizer --
Transitions : form and performance after 1989 / Katharina Gerstenberger. A path of poetic potentials : coordinates of German lyric identity in the poetry of Zafer Şenocak / Erika M. Nelson ; Performing GDR in poetry? The literary significance of "East German" poetry in unified Germany / Birgit Dahlke ; Feridun Zaimoglu's performance of gender and authorship / Gary Schmidt --
Transformations : women writing in the new century / Patricia Herminghouse. From Frauenliteratur to Frauenliteraturbetrieb : marketing literature to German women in the twenty-first century / Julia Karolle-Berg and Katya Skow ; Social alienation and gendered surveillance : Julia Franck observes post-Wende society / Beret Norman ; Small stories : the novels of Martina Hefter / Katharina Gerstenberger ; The young author as public intellectual : the case of Juli Zeh / Patricia Herminghouse.
Responsibility: edited by Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse.
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