Volker Braun in Perspective (German Monitor 58) - Couverture souple

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042008598 ISBN 13 : 9789042008595

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On the occasion of Volker Braun's 65th and GDR/German Monitor's 25th birthday an attempt is made to re-evaluate Braun's contribution to 20th and 21st century German literature. The seventeen essays of the collection, written by a truly international set of scholars, demonstrate the unique quality and breadth of Braun's writing, spanning all literary genres. But not only that, they also reveal the diversity of interpretative perspectives which Braun's oeuvre productively stimulates. They showcase an author who refuses to indulge complacently in past achievements and an opus that defies all attempts at labelling. Braun's texts, so the verdict of the contributors, are driven by an insatiable thirst for the whole story, the depth beneath the superficial, the complex truth of our human predicament; for the precise expression which is not caught up in the limitations of the dominant ideology, whatever it might be.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Rolf Jucker (1963), Ph.D. (University of Zurich, 1990) on Stefan Schütz, since 1992 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in German, and more recently Sustainability, at the University of Wales Swansea. Main research interests: (Ex-) GDR literature, with special emphasis on the relationship between literature and society. Numerous publications on Stefan Schütz, Heiner Müller, Volker Braun and Peter Bichsel, amongst them Volker Braun (1995) and Stefan Schütz (1997). A monograph on Volker Braun is in press and his volume on Education for Sustainability, Our Common Illiteracy. Education as if the Earth and People Mattered, has appeared in 2002.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9042008598
• ISBN 13: 9789042008595
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 273