The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature: The Eye Among the Blind - Couverture rigide

Pinfold, Debbie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199245657 ISBN 13 : 9780199245659

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book examines the ways in which German authors have used the child's perspective to present the Third Reich. It considers how children at this time were brought up and educated to accept unquestioningly National Socialist ideology, and thus questions the possibility of a traditional naive perspective on these events. Authors as diverse as Günter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf, together with many less well-known writers, have all used this perspective, and this raises the question as to why it is such a popular means of confronting the enormity of the Third Reich. This study asks whether this perspective is an evasive strategy, a means of gaining new insights into the period, or a means of discovering a new language which had not been tainted by Nazism. This raises and addresses issues central to a post-war aesthetic in German writing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Debbie Pinfold is Lecturer in German, Brasenose and Merton Colleges, Oxford

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199245657
• ISBN 13: 9780199245659
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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