Günter Grass Revisited
Author: Patrick O'Neill
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass
Author: Stuart Taberner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 113982824X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGünter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works.
Günter Grass and His Critics
Author: Siegfried Mews
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1571130624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Life and Work of Gunter Grass
Author: J. Preece
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0230286607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the Twentieth-century. It shows in particular how his experiences as a teenage Nazi shaped his thinking, both in his novels and his role as critic and campaigner, from The Tin Drum (1959), his most famous novel, to My Century (1999), from his public protest against the building of the Berlin Wall (1961) to his diatribes against Helmut Kohl in the late 1990s. This new paperback edition includes new material on his last two books, My Century and Crabwalk including a revised Bibliography and Chronology.
The Tin Drum
Author: Günter Grass
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II , The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
Revisiting Günter Grass
Author: Vibha Surana
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783826062735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass
Author: Nicole A. Thesz
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1571139567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.
The Political Novel
Author: Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-07-18
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1441178627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Stuart Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning that tends to elude historians and social scientists. Novelists peer into the shattered lives, the moral dilemmas, and the emotional chaos of the century, thus viewing a collective catastrophe through the everyday lives of victims, victimizers, temporizers, opportunists, true believers, and those who simply averted their eyes. In so doing, these novelists reveal, sometimes prophetically, the etiology of catastrophe, and both deepen our memory of the past and help us to think more clearly about the future.
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass
Author: Alex Donovan Cole
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1000797643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grass’s thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radicalism and affirming the need for German society to resist the rise of extreme ideologies.
Günter Grass Revisited
Author: Patrick O'Neill
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the skills of Gunter Grass as a literary artist.
