Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571135847
Essays in this volume rethink conventional ways of conceptualizing female authorship and re-examine the formal, aesthetic, and thematic terms in which German women's literature has been conceived.
Author : Jo Catling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521656283
This volume makes the wide-ranging work of German women writers visible to a wider audience. It is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume, which will be indispensable for students and scholars of German literature, and all those interested in women's and gender studies.
Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Women and Gender in German Stu
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1640140786
This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.
Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108472826
Examines women's life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Author : Elizabeth Rütschi Herrmann
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148327957X
German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century is an anthology of German women writers of the twentieth century and includes English translations of their German-language short stories. These short stories provide an insight into their creators' literary achievement and give some impression of the great variety and scope of their work. Comprised of 16 chapters, this volume begins with a short story by Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) entitled "Love," followed by another story entitled "The Wife of Pilate," by Gertrud von Le Fort (1876-1971). The remaining chapters present short stories by Elisabeth Langgässer (1899-1950), Anna Seghers (1900- ), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974), Luise Rinser (1911- ), Ilse Aichinger (1921- ), Barbara König (1925- ), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), Christa Reinig (1926- ), Christa Wolf (1929- ), Gabriele Wohmann (1932- ), Helga Novak (1935- ), Gisela Elsner (1937- ), Elisabeth Meylan (1937- ), and Angelika Mechtel (1943- ). This monograph will be of interest to students, scholars, and authors who wish to know more about German literature in general and the work of German women writers in particular.
Author : Brigid Haines
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191541664
Six key texts by contemporary women writers are read afresh by leading critics, using insights from poststructuralist and new materialist feminist theory. Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, and Elfriede Jelinek have long been prominent in the fields of Austrian modernism, GDR writing, and avant-garde Austrian literature. The innovative work of Anne Duden, Herta Müller, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar sets out to challenge dominant models of German identity. Focusing on the body and suffering, they explore textual representations of trauma, national identity, and displacement. Haines and Littler's readings of these distinguished and complex female authors offer new avenues for discussion. Both critics and their subjects cast a sceptical eye over existing notions of subjectivity in relation to language, gender, and race. Together, they spark controversy and comment, in an increasingly important debate.
Author : Julie L.. J. Koehler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814345026
Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scholars, students, and general readers.
Author : Katharina von Hammerstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110572001
Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events.
Author : Chris Weedon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571819024
A study of women's writing in the Federal Republic, the German Democratic Republic, Austria and Switzerland, 1945-1990.
Author : Emily Jeremiah
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571135367
Explores nationality, gender, and postmodern subjectivity in the work of five German-speaking women writers who embody a "nomadic ethics." How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do "gender" and "nation" play in the construction of contemporary identities? Nomadic Ethics broaches these questions, exploring the work of five women writers who live outside of the German-speaking countries or thematize a move away from them: Birgit Vanderbeke, Dorothea Grünzweig, Antje Rávic Strubel, Anna Mitgutsch, and Barbara Honigmann. It draws on work by Rosi Braidotti, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Butler to develop a nomadic ethics, and examines how the writers under discussion conceptualize contemporary German and Austrian identities -- especially but not only gender identities -- in instructive ways. The book engages with a number of critical issues in contemporary German studies: globalization; green thought; questions of gender and sexuality; East (and West) German identities; Austrianness; the postmemory of the Holocaust; and Jewishness. In this way, Nomadic Ethics offers a valuable contribution to debates about the nature of German studies itself, as well as insightful readings of the individual authors and texts concerned. Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.
