Jean E. Conacher

Transformation and Education in the Literature of the GDR (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how writers adhered to, played with, and subverted the formulaic precepts of educational transformation in the German Democratic Republic.



Perhaps never before has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the new nation founded in 1949 as the German Democratic Republic. For forty years, educational and cultural policy played a pivotal role in effortsto build and sustain a socialist state on German soil. Party and state held teachers and writers responsible for demonstrating the superiority of socialism, infusing pupils and readers with a commitment to the emerging state, andproviding persuasive role models of der neue Mensch each was challenged to become.
Utilizing an innovative triangular framework, this book demonstrates how mentor-protegé(e) rubrics, traditionally associated with the socialist Bildungsroman, came to characterize text-external and text-internal relations within diverse narrative forms. Thus, leading writers such as Hermann Kant, Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, and Christoph Hein played with the genre's patterns of transformation as they engaged with the intellectual, societal, and aesthetic dilemmas of GDR life. This book shows that understanding representations of educational transformation in GDR literature, a topic largely overlooked by critics, is central to an aesthetic appreciation of that literature more broadly.

Jean E. Conacher is Senior Lecturer in German within the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics atthe University of Limerick, Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787445390
• Artikelnr.: 59017636

Autorenporträt

Jean E. Conacher is Senior Lecturer in German within the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics atthe University of Limerick, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Postwar Desire for Renewal Shaping the Cultural and
Educational Landscape in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) Interweaving GDR
Education and Cultural Policy towards a National Literature Critiquing the
Norm in Steinmann's Die größere Liebe, Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel, and
Kant's Die Aula "Ich bin. Wer?": Subjectivity and Transformation in Wolf's
Nachdenken über Christa T. and Reimann's Franziska Linkerhand "Wem geben
wir Einsen . . .?" Meritocracies and Reward in de Bruyn's Die
Preisverleihung and Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W "Mir geht es
gut": Challenging Stagnation in Hein's Der fremde Freund and Höntsch's Wir
sind keine Kinder mehr Conclusion Appendix A: Text-Internal Functions of
Narrative Triangle (Left Side) Appendix B: Text-External Functions of
Narrative Triangle (Right Side) Notes Bibliography Index