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Format: 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : , 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). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling -- , Part I. Anna Seghers: A Missing Piece in the Canon of Modernist Storytellers -- , 1: Anna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years -- , 2: Who Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers’s “The Excursion of the Dead Girls”: Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction -- , 3: Anna Seghers’s Rubble Literature, 1947–49 -- , 4: Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic -- , 5: Aufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers’s GDR Novels -- , 6: The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers -- , 7: Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers’s Conceptual Metaphors -- , Part II. Expressions of Modernity: Using Storytelling Unconventionally -- , 8: Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine’s Prose Fiction -- , 9: Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka -- , 10: Synthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in “Shanghai Ghetto” -- , 11: American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools -- , 12: A Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945 -- , 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 -- , Part III. The Personal Narrative: Storytelling in Acute Historical Moments -- , 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) -- , 15: Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story -- , 16: Conflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred -- , 17: “Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen”: Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf’s Novel Kindheitsmuster -- , 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 -- , 19: Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich -- , Contributors -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-64014-040-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781787444386

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URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444386/type/BOOK

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Format: 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781787444386 (ebook)

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).

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781640140400

Language: English

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444386/type/BOOK

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Format: vii, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781640140400

Series Statement: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Content: "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 not only 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"--

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: Deutsch ; Literatur ; Erzählen ; Seghers, Anna 1900-1983 ; Literatur ; Erzählen ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Boney, Kristy R. 1975-

Author information: William, Jennifer Marston 1971-