Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature Hardback
by William Grange
Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts series
Hardback
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Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating.
German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality.
In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries.
This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called "zero hour" for German literature and proceeds into the 21st century, concluding in 2008.
This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Boell, Gunter Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W.
G. Sebald. There are also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary styles, and forms.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:370 pages
- Publisher:Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2009
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- ISBN:9780810859654
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:370 pages
- Publisher:Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810859654
