Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond: For Once, Telling It All from the Beginning - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1640140409 ISBN 13 : 9781640140400

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

While Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay "The Storyteller" (1936), lamented the decline of the storytelling tradition in the age of the modernist novel, Anna Seghers and other twentieth-century German writers went on to chronicle the century's darkest days in creative and compelling ways. This volume is at its heart a tribute to Germanist Helen Fehervary, whose work, particularly on the prose of Anna Seghers, continues to inspire scholars who examine narration and storytelling. The subtitle quotation, "for once, telling it all from the beginning," is a translation of the phrase "einmal alles von Anfang an erzählen," from Seghers's exile novel Transit, in which she told notonly her own story but that of countless others who faced existential challenges in their attempts to escape the Nazi regime. This volume examines a number of such writers, exploring the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, as well as individual struggles involving conformity and resistance in a totalitarian state.

Contributors: Peter Beicken, Hunter Bivens, Kristy R. Boney, Ute Brandes, Stephen Brockmann, Sylvia Fischer, Jost Hermand, Kristen Hetrick, Robert C. Holub, Weijia Li, Elizabeth Loentz, Michaela Peroutková, Benjamin Robinson, Christiane Zehl Romero, Marc Silberman, Andy Spencer, Luke Springman, Amy Kepple Strawser, Jennifer Marston William.

Kristy R. Boney is Associate Professor of German at the University of Central Missouri. Jennifer Marston William is Professor of German and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).

STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640140409
• ISBN 13: 9781640140400
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Éditeur: Kristy Boney Kristy, William Professor Jennifer Marston
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