Dimensions of storytelling in German literature and beyond
| Titel: | Dimensions of storytelling in German literature and beyond : "for once, telling it all from the beginning" / edited by Kristy R. Boney and Jennifer Marston William |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018 |
| Umfang: | vii, 280 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
| ISBN: | 9781640140400 ; 1640140409 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction: The Social, Political, and Personal Dimensions of Storytelling
- p. 1
- Part I
- Anna Seghers: A Missing Piece in the Canon of Modernist Storytellers
- 1
- Anna Seghers in Heidelberg: The Formative Years
- p. 13
- 2
- Who Is the Narrator? Anna Seghers's "The Excursion of the Dead Girls": Narrative Mode and Cinematic Depiction
- p. 24
- 3
- Anna Seghers's Rubble Literature, 1947-49
- p. 43
- 4
- Anna Seghers and the Struggle to Tell Stories about the Nazi Past in the Early German Democratic Republic
- p. 55
- 5
- Aufbauzeit or flaue Zeit? Anna Seghers's GDR Novels
- p. 70
- 6
- The Time of Decision in Anna Seghers
- p. 82
- 7
- Filling the Void with Stories: Anna Seghers's Conceptual Metaphors
- p. 95
- Part II
- Expressions of Modernity: Using Storytelling Unconventionally
- 8
- Storytelling and Telling Stories in Heine's Prose Fiction
- p. 111
- 9
- Modernist Haze: Topographical Textures in Paul Klee and Franz Kafka
- p. 122
- 10
- Synthesis and Transtextuality: The Jewish Reinvention of Chinese Mythical Stories in "Shanghai Ghetto"
- p. 140
- 11
- American Children Writing Yiddish: The Published Anthologies of the Chicago Sholem Aleichem Schools
- p. 152
- 12
- A Literary Depiction of the Homeland of Jews in Czechoslovakia and East Germany after 1945
- p. 164
- 13
- Changed for the Better? Alternative Uses of the Transformative Cancer Trope in Thomas Mann's Die Betrogene and Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life
- p. 176
- Part III
- The Personal Narrative: Storytelling in Acute Historical Moments
- 14
- 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)
- p. 189
- 15
- Too Near, Too Far: My GDR Story
- p. 198
- 16
- Conflict without Resolution: Konrad Wolf and the Dilemma of Hatred
- p. 209
- 17
- "Bleibt noch ein Lied zu singen": Autobiographical and Cultural Memory in Christa Wolf's Novel Kindheitsmuster
- p. 221
- 18
- 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
- p. 234
- 19
- Storytelling in the GDR: An Interview with Eberhard Aurich and Christa Streiber-Aurich
- p. 252
- Notes on the Contributors
- p. 267
- Index
- p. 271
