UID:
almahu_9949337149202882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781501391057
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9781501391033
Series Statement:
New Directions in German Studies.
Content:
"How do authors relate to the wider world in which they live and work? What are the mechanisms that make one bestselling author famous well beyond her lifetime while another sinks without trace while still alive? And where does literature fit in to a complex society's attempts to understand itself, both in terms of what it has been and what it has the potential to become? Authors and the World traces how four core modes of authorship have developed and inflect one another in the particular contexts of late 20th- and early 21st-century Germany. In so doing, it provides not just a radically new approach to German literary history but a thoroughly new paradigm for thinking about what literary authorship is in different places and how it draws in different people from across the Western world."--
Note:
Introduction: Rethinking Goethe's World Literature through Authors, World, and Place -- 1. Four Modes of Authorship across German-Speaking Europe -- 2. The Exemplary Creator: Modelling Authorship in West Germany, 1945-1970 -- 3. The Exemplary Pedagogue: Alternative Foundations for Belonging in the GDR -- 4. Authorship in the German Literature Network: Cold War Frankfurt and Berlin -- 5. Staying Alive: Re-Imagining Literary Worlds through Travel, Death and Dispersal in Old and New Germanys -- 6. New Collaborations: Opening up the Missing Places of German Authorship in the Twenty-First Century In Conversation: Ulrike Draesner on Creating Contexts for Literature In Conversation: Olga Martynova on Living in Multiple Literary Worlds In Conversation: Ulrike Almut Sandig on Collaborating across Media, Genres, and Countries -- Bibliography -- Index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781501391064
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781501391057
URL:
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