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Christoph Hein in Perspective

2000 German literature
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Release : 2000
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Book Synopsis Christoph Hein in Perspective by : Graham Jackman

Download or read book Christoph Hein in Perspective written by Graham Jackman. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many writers from the former GDR, Christoph Hein's reputation and standing - and his creativity - have remained intact despite the demise of the GDR in 1989-90. Christoph Hein in Perspective brings together essays by both established and younger scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA which together cover a wide spectrum of his work, from the early writings of the 1970s to the play In Acht und Bann of 1999 and including his speeches and essays as well as all his major prose works. There is a marked emphasis in the volume on Hein's post-Wende output, with about half the contributions focusing primarily on this period. Another feature is the diversity of perspectives from which the works are examined: historical and political viewpoints are complemented by formal and comparative studies as well as by gender-based perspectives. The volume includes additionally the first published English translation of what is for many Hein's most successful work for the stage, Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q of 1983 ('The True Story of Ah Q'). The volume as a whole should be of interest to scholars concerned with the GDR and with contemporary German culture, to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and also the others interested in the history and culture of Germany since 1945. Six of the essays are in English and six in German.

Christoph Hein in Perspective

2000 German literature
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Release : 2000
Genre : German literature
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Book Rating : 923/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Christoph Hein in Perspective by : Graham Jackman

Download or read book Christoph Hein in Perspective written by Graham Jackman. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many writers from the former GDR, Christoph Hein's reputation and standing - and his creativity - have remained intact despite the demise of the GDR in 1989-90. Christoph Hein in Perspectivebrings together essays by both established and younger scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA which together cover a wide spectrum of his work, from the early writings of the 1970s to the play In Acht und Bannof 1999 and including his speeches and essays as well as all his major prose works. There is a marked emphasis in the volume on Hein's post-Wendeoutput, with about half the contributions focusing primarily on this period. Another feature is the diversity of perspectives from which the works are examined: historical and political viewpoints are complemented by formal and comparative studies as well as by gender-based perspectives. The volume includes additionally the first published English translation of what is for many Hein's most successful work for the stage, Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Qof 1983 ('The True Story of Ah Q'). The volume as a whole should be of interest to scholars concerned with the GDR and with contemporary German culture, to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and also the others interested in the history and culture of Germany since 1945. Six of the essays are in English and six in German.

East Germany

2000 History
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Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis East Germany by : Paul Cooke

Download or read book East Germany written by Paul Cooke. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers first presented at a colloquium for postgraduate students held at the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham 1998.

Mapping the Contours of Oppression

2006-01-01 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Mapping the Contours of Oppression by : Owen Evans

Download or read book Mapping the Contours of Oppression written by Owen Evans. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors – Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron – who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual analysis, Evans explores the impact these regimes had on the individuals concerned and the contrasting ways in which the authors handle the autobiographical project. They adopt varying textual strategies to render the self on the page, with some employing overt fiction, and yet in each case, the project was clearly motivated by the need to treat psychological wounds inflicted on the self by totalitarianism. In their mapping of the contours of oppression, the texts at the heart of this study combine to offer a powerful defence of literary autobiography, in Germany at least, as a valuable means of tackling the legacy of totalitarianism.

'Diese merkwürdige Kleinigkeit einer Vision'

2021-11-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2021-11-15
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Book Synopsis 'Diese merkwürdige Kleinigkeit einer Vision' by : David Clarke

Download or read book 'Diese merkwürdige Kleinigkeit einer Vision' written by David Clarke. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Hein is one of the best-known authors of the former GDR, and his works of fiction have been widely interpreted as responses to and critiques of socialist society. In this study, David Clarke undertakes a detailed analysis of all of Christoph Hein’s major works of fiction from Der fremde Freund (1928) to Willenbrock (2000) in order to explore Hein’s critique of the GDR regime, whilst also demonstrating how aspects of that critique provided a starting point for Hein’s rejection of capitalism both before and after German unification. For Hein, socialism had failed to make good its promise to create a community bound together by common values and goals, preferring instead to impose conformity upon its citizens. Capitalism, he believed, was equally unable to meet the need for community, and Hein sought to demonstrate the consequences of this state of affairs in the figure of Wörle in his first post-unification novel, Das Napoleon-Spiel (1993). After this point, Clarke argues, Hein was nevertheless forced to re-examine his criticism of capitalism, a process which ultimately led to the more differentiated and convincing portrayal to be found in Willenbrock.

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