A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-57113-418-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dramatists and novelists of the late twentieth century.

One of the most influential German-language writers of the late twentieth century, Max Frisch (1911-1991) not only has canonical status in Europe, but has also been well received in the English-speaking world. English translationsof his works are available in multiple recent editions. Frisch was a recipient of both the Büchner Award (1958), and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1976); his body of work explores questions of identity, alienation, and ethics in modern society. He is best known for the plays Andorra (1961), a seminal drama that examines indifference and mass psychology in the context of the Shoah and continues to be produced by theaters around the world, and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1958), another worldwide success and one of the most frequently used texts in advanced undergraduate German courses in the United States, as well as for his novels Stiller (1954), Homo Faber (1957), and Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964). Yet Frisch has only recently begun to receive the sustained scholarly attention he deserves: neither a comprehensive introductory volume to nor a collaborative handbook on the works of Frisch is available in English, a situation that this volume redresses.

Contributors: Régine Battiston, Klaus van den Berg, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Charitina Boyd, Céline Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beatrice Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Daniel de Vin, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul A. Youngman.

Olaf Berwald is Professor of German and Chair of the Departmentof Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berwald, Olaf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Max Frisch in the Twenty-First Century
Max Frisch's Early Plays
Spielraum in Max Frisch's Graf Öderland and Don Juan: Transparency as Mode of Performance
Max Frisch's Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Die große Wut des Philipp Hotz
Max Frisch's Andorra: Balancing Act between Pattern and Particular
Eternal Recurrence in Life and Death in Max Frisch's Late Plays
Max Frisch's Early Fiction
From Life to Literature: Max Frisch's Frisch's Tagebücher
"Writing in order to be a stranger to oneself": Max Frisch's Stiller
Cybernetic Flow, Analogy, and Probability in Max Frisch's Homo Faber
The Ends of Blindness in Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein
Max Frisch's Montauk. Eine Erzählung
Man, Culture, and Nature in Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän
"My life as a man. Everyman": Max Frisch's Blaubart. Erzählung
Max Frisch's Essays and Speeches
Frisch's Major Works
Select Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berwald, Olaf
OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.

Contributors: Régine Battiston, Olaf Berwald, Amanda Boyd, Daniel de Vin, Céline Letawe, Walter Obschlager, John D. Pizer, Beate Sandberg, Caroline Schaumann, Frank Schaumann, Walter Schmitz, Margit Unser, Klaus van den Berg, Ruth Vogel-Klein, Paul Youngman.

Olaf Berwald is Associate Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota.