Format:
1 Online-Ressource (203 pages)
ISBN:
9781787440593
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1787440591
Series Statement:
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture v. Volume 183
Content:
This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rhetoric of Suicide in East Germany -- 1: Suicide as an Antifascist Literary Trope: 1945-71 -- 2: Suicide and the Fluidity of Literary Heritage: Ulrich Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. -- 3: Remembering to Death: Werner Heiduczek's Tod am Meer -- 4: Suicide and the Reevaluation of Classicism: Christa Wolf's Kein Ort. Nirgends -- 5: Suicidal Voices: Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine and Sibylle Muthesius's Flucht in die Wolken -- 6: Specters of Suicide: Christoph Hein's Horns Ende -- Conclusion: The Reality of Fictional Suicides -- Epilogue: The Literariness of East German Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571135742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 157113574X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blankenship, Robert Suicide in East German Literature : Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage Melton : Boydell & Brewer, ©2017 ISBN 9781571135742
Language:
English
Author information:
Blankenship, Robert 1980-
