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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 309 pages)
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ISBN:
9781571136169
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Günter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed the rest of Döblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Döblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio.Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Müller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Düsing.Roland Dollinger is associate professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is professor emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is professor of German at Oberlin College
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571131249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A companion to the works of Alfred Döblin Rochester, NY [u.a.] : Camden House, 2004 ISBN 1571131248
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1571131248
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Döblin, Alfred 1878-1957
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Döblin, Alfred 1878-1957
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Dollinger, Roland 1960-
Author information:
Köpke, Wulf 1928-2010
Author information:
Thomann Tewarson, Heidi 1939-
