Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond (eBook, PDF)

For once, telling it all from the beginning
Redaktion: Kristy Boney, Kristy; William, Jennifer Marston

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.



While Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay "The Storyteller" (1936), lamented the decline of the storytelling tradition in the age of the modernist novel, Anna Seghers and other twentieth-century German writers went on to chronicle the century's darkest days in creative and compelling ways. This volume is at its heart a tribute to Germanist Helen Fehervary, whose work, particularly on the prose of Anna Seghers, continues to inspire scholars who examine narration and storytelling. The subtitle quotation, "for once, telling it all from the beginning," is a translation of the phrase "einmal alles von Anfang an erzählen," from Seghers's exile novel Transit, in which she told notonly her own story but that of countless others who faced existential challenges in their attempts to escape the Nazi regime. This volume examines a number of such writers, exploring the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, as well as individual struggles involving conformity and resistance in a totalitarian state.

Contributors: Peter Beicken, Hunter Bivens, Kristy R. Boney, Ute Brandes, Stephen Brockmann, Sylvia Fischer, Jost Hermand, Kristen Hetrick, Robert C. Holub, Weijia Li, Elizabeth Loentz, Michaela Peroutková, Benjamin Robinson, Christiane Zehl Romero, Marc Silberman, Andy Spencer, Luke Springman, Amy Kepple Strawser, Jennifer Marston William.

Kristy R. Boney is Associate Professor of German at the University of Central Missouri. Jennifer Marston William is Professor of German and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787444386
• Artikelnr.: 56248171

Autorenporträt

Kristy R. Boney, Jennifer Marston William

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of
Storytelling - Kristy R. Boney and Jennifer Marston William PART I. ANNA
SEGHERS: A MISSING PIECE IN THE CANON OF MODERNIST STORYTELLERS Anna
Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years - Christiane Zehl Romero Who Is
the Narrator? Anna Seghers's "The Excursion of the Dead Girls": Narrative
Mode and Cinematic Depiction - Peter Beicken Anna Seghers's Rubble
Literature, 1947-49 - Ute Brandes Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell
Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic -
Stephen Brockmann Aufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers's GDR Novels -
Hunter Bivens The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers - Benjamin Robinson
Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers's Conceptual Metaphors -
Jennifer Marston William PART II. EXPRESSIONS OF MODERNITY: USING
STORYTELLING UNCONVENTIONALLY Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine's
Prose Fiction - Robert C. Holub Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in
Paul Klee and Franz Kafka - Kristy R. Boney Synthesis and Transtextuality:
The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in "Shanghai Ghetto" -
Weijia Li American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of
the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools - Elizabeth Loentz A Literary Depiction
of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945 -
Michaela Peroutkova Changed for the Better? Alternative Uses of the
Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann's Die Betrogene and Nadine
Gordimer's Get a Life - Kristen Hetrick PART III. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE:
STORYTELLING IN ACUTE HISTORICAL MOMENTS Problems and Effects of
Autobiographical Storytelling: Als Pimpf in Polen: Erweiterte
Kinderlandverschickung 1940-1945 (1993) and A Hitler Youth in Poland: The
Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children during World War II (1998) - Jost
Hermand Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story - Marc Silberman Conflict without
Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred - Andy Spencer "Bleibt
noch ein Lied zu singen": Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa
Wolf's Novel Kindheitsmuster - Luke Springman Narrating Germany's Past: A
Story of Exile and the Return Home-A Translation of the Chapter "Above the
Lake" from Ursula Krechel's Novel Landgericht - Amy Kepple Strawser
Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa
Streiber-Aurich - Sylvia Fischer Notes on the Contributors