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German-language literature today : international and popular? / edited by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Julian Preece.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : P. Lang, ©2000.
Description320 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorWilliams, Arthur, 1940-
Other author/creatorParkes, K. Stuart, 1943-
Other author/creatorPreece, Julian.
Other author/creatorBradford International Colloquium on Contemporary German Literature (7th : 2000 : Leeds, England)
Contents Contemporary German-language literature : the changing agenda / Stuart Parkes -- Patrick Süskind's Parfum : 'No one knows how well made it is' / Dieter Stolz -- German identities in transition? The translation of contemporary German fiction in Britain and France / Wiebke Sievers -- Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke : best-selling responses to the Holocaust / J.J. Long -- Günter Grass since the Wende : German and international / Beatrice Petz -- Images of Switzerland in Swiss crime fiction / Christopher Jones -- W.G. Sebald : a holistic approach to borders, texts and perspectives / Arthur Williams -- Michael Scharang : from Florisdorf to New York and back again / Silke Hassler -- Enlightenment and entertainment--still? Uwe Timm's narrative model and his reception in the USA and in Great Britain / Helmut Peitsch -- 'Erzählen ist total erotisch' : literature, pleasure and desire in novels by Thomas Brussig, Uwe Timm and Ulrich Woelk / Stefan Neuhaus -- Reduction, regression, silence : a critical look beyond the category of the picaresque / Tanja Nause -- How simple are Ingo Schulze's 'Storys'? / Peter Graves -- Whither? Away! Reflections on the motifs of travel and identity in recent east German prose / Astrid Köhler -- Bridging the cultures : German contemporary Jugendliteratur / Susan Tebbutt -- Staging exoticism and demystifying the exotic : German-Arab Grenzgängerliteratur / Uta Aifan -- Of fables and multiculturalism : the Felidae novels of Akif Pirinçci / James Jordan -- 'Den Amis in Hollywood ein für allemal das Lebenslichtlein ausblasen!' : aspects of text and film in the late 1990s / Colin Riordan -- Access denied : Werner Schwab, the explosion of character and the collapse of the play-within-a-play / David Barnett -- German pop literature : Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and what came after / Carsten Rohde.
General noteChiefly rev. papers presented at the 7th Bradford International Colloquium on Contemporary German-Language Literature held in April 2000 at Hinsley Hall, Leeds.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index.
LCCN 00052005
ISBN3906764885
ISBN9783906764887
ISBN0820450537 (U.S.)
ISBN9780820450537 (U.S.)

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