Breaking Boundaries

1996 German poetry

Author : Karen J. Leeder
Release : 1996
Genre : German poetry
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Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Breaking Boundaries written by Karen J. Leeder. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic. Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which were imposed upon them, radicalizing notions of the subject, of history, of language, of the poetic enterprise itself. The volume also assesses what will remain - after the fall of the Wall, and the revelations of the 'Stasi' files - of this radical poetic project. This unique study examines the poetry of some fifty writers from both the official and the underground publishing scenes, offering them up as a case-study in the vexed negotiations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and as a contribution to the rewriting of German literary history after 1945.

The Poet’s Role

2021-10-18 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Ruth J. Owen
Release : 2021-10-18
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Poet’s Role written by Ruth J. Owen. This book was released on 2021-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German ‘Wende’ was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification ‘Literaturstreit’. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet’s role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. Two central chapters then gather the poetry of the ‘Wende’ and unification as a corpus of work and characterize it, through the elucidation of recurring themes, motifs and techniques. The volume strikes a balance between giving a general overview of poetry written in 1989-1996 and focusing on individual poets whose work is particularly compelling. After identifying broad trends across a wide range of individual poems, collections and anthologies, single chapters therefore examine in greater depth the work of Volker Braun and Durs Grünbein. The concluding chapter addresses the issue of a separate GDR literature. Finally, an extensive, structured bibliography is provided, covering the poetry, literary criticism and cultural history of the period.

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

2015-03-26 Political Science

Author : Mary Zirin
Release : 2015-03-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 97X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia written by Mary Zirin. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Women Without a Past?

2007 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Joanne Sayner
Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 280/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Women Without a Past? written by Joanne Sayner. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains autobiographies written by women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl and Grete Weil. This book examines autobiography as a form of writing at the centre of debates on the 'self', 'truth' and 'history'.

Political Dialogue

2021-09-20 Philosophy

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Release : 2021-09-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)

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