Women's Writing and Historiography in the Gdr

ISBN-13: 9780199255924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 290 str.

Helen Bridge

Opis

This is not only the first study to offer a detailed comparison of historical and literary discourses in the GDR, but also the first to illuminate relations between three topics popular in East German women's writing: the National Socialist past; the lives of historical women; and the use of mythical themes and forms to voice critiques of history.

Recenzje

... a work of remarkable scope, and combines textual analysis with contextual awareness in exemplary fashion. The writing is lucid, the scholarship first-rate, and the book as a whole is of great interest and value not merely to GDR specialists, but to scholars interested in women's writing, biography, historical fiction, and the sociology of literature more generally.

O autorze

Helen Bridge received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1999. She is currently a lecturer in German at the University of Exeter.