Kristy Boney / William Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond

For once, telling it all from the beginning
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78744-438-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 197, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristy Boney, Kristy

William, Jennifer Marston

Weitere Mitwirkende

Strawser, Amy Kepple

Spencer, Andy

Robinson, Benjamin

Romero, Christiane Zehl

Loentz, Elizabeth

Bivens, Hunter

William, Jennifer Marston

Hermand, Jost

Hetrick, Kristen

Kristy Boney, Kristy

Springman, Luke

Silberman, Marc

Peroutkova, Michaela

Beicken, Peter

Holub, Robert C.

Brockmann, Stephen

Fischer, Sylvia

Brandes, Ute

Li, Weijia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

William Jennifer Marston:
JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).William Jennifer Marston:
JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).Brockmann Stephen:
STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.