UID:
almafu_9960118229002883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-438-4
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Apr 2019).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling --
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Part I. Anna Seghers: A Missing Piece in the Canon of Modernist Storytellers --
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1: Anna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years --
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2: Who Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers’s “The Excursion of the Dead Girls”: Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction --
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3: Anna Seghers’s Rubble Literature, 1947–49 --
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4: Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic --
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5: Aufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers’s GDR Novels --
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6: The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers --
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7: Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers’s Conceptual Metaphors --
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Part II. Expressions of Modernity: Using Storytelling Unconventionally --
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8: Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine’s Prose Fiction --
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9: Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka --
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10: Synthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in “Shanghai Ghetto” --
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11: American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools --
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12: A Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945 --
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13: Changed for the Better? Alternative Uses of the Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann’s Die Betrogene and Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life --
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Part III. The Personal Narrative: Storytelling in Acute Historical Moments --
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14: Problems and Effects of Autobiographical Storytelling: Als Pimpf in Polen: Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung 1940–1945 (1993) and A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis’ Program for Evacuating Children during World War II (1998) --
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15: Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story --
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16: Conflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred --
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17: “Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen”: Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf’s Novel Kindheitsmuster --
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18: Narrating Germany’s Past: A Story of Exile and the Return Home— A Translation of the Chapter “Above the Lake” from Ursula Krechel’s Novel Landgericht --
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19: Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich --
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Contributors --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64014-040-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787444386
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444386/type/BOOK
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