Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 434 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
From the Tin Drum to Crabwalk
Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 434 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-64014-039-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
A comprehensive narrative overview and analysis of the criticism of the controversial German author's works.
When the Swedish Academy announced that Günter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled thepostwar rebirth of German letters, auguring "a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction." Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with The Tin Drum, Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. SiegfriedMews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in publicdiscourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additionalinsight into the reception of Grass's works.
Siegfried Mews is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Introduction
Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum
Katz und Maus / Cat and Mouse
Hundejahre / Dog Years
Danziger Trilogie / The Danzig Trilogy
Örtlich betäubt / Local Anaesthetic
Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke / From the Diary of a Snail
Der Butt / The Flounder
Das Treffen in Telgte / The Meeting at Telgte
Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus / Headbirths or The Germans Are Dying Out
Die Rättin / The Rat
Zunge zeigen / Show Your Tongue
Unkenrufe / The Call of the Toad
Ein weites Feld / Too Far Afield
Mein Jahrhundert / My Century
Im Krebsgang / Crabwalk
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
