Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> European - German

Fuhmanns Held im Judenauto zieht als begeisterter Mitlaufer in den Vernichtungskrieg und kehrt als glaubiger Sozialist aus der sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenschaft zuruck in seine DDR. Obwohl 1962 und 1979 in differierenden Textfassungen erschienen, gilt Das Judenauto in der Forschung bisher nicht als Zensurfall im DDR-Literaturbetrieb. Die erste historisch-kritische Fuhmann-Studie erfasst drei publizierte sowie zwei unbekannte Textzeugen synoptisch und belegt so die Selbstzensur durch den Autor sowie die Fremdzensur. Editions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte sowie eine Textanalyse rahmen den...

French ?cocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which　contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus's ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of -French ecocriticism.- Working across contemporary philosophy and literature, the book defines the concept of the ecological as an attentiveness to specific nature-culture contexts and to a text's...

Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This broad-ranging introduction to the author, her work and times builds upon and moves beyond such foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of Wolf's oeuvre today, also for non-German readers. Thus, it brings East German culture alive to students, teachers, scholars...

This work challenges the common consensus that Luther, with his commitment to St. Paul's articulation of justification by faith, leaves no room for the Letter of St. James. Against this one-sided reading of Luther, focused only his criticism of the letter, this book argues that Luther had fruitful interpretations of the epistle that shaped the subsequent exegetical tradition. Scholarship's singular concentration on Luther's criticism of James as -an epistle of straw- has caused many to overlook Luther's sermons on James, the many places where James comes to full expression in Luther's...

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee's trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man's development through various stages of life and, equally, different geographical locations, such as apartheid South Africa, sixties London and South Africa in the throes of democratic revolution.

Attentive to the masculine formations that the trilogy represents, this work...