German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past: Representations of National Socialism in Contemporary Germanic Literature - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754601129 ISBN 13 : 9780754601128

Editeur : Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through GÃ1/4nter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helmut Schmitz, University of Warwick, UK Bill Niven, Julian Preece, Stuart Taberner, Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Juliet Wigmore, Helmut Schmitz, Anna M. Parkinson, Susan Tebbutt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754601129
• ISBN 13: 9780754601128
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Schmitz Helmut
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible