Constructing authorship in the work of Günter Grass /

A challenging new reading of Grass's literary work and political writings that examines how the author has reacted to sustained public interest in his person from the mid-1960s onwards. Braun draws together an eclectic body of literary writing and suggests that questions of authorship lie at th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braun, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Models of authorship: Das Treffen in Telgte in context
  • Public constructions of authorship in Grass's political writings, 1965-2005
  • 'Mich ... in Variationen ... erzählen' I: placing the author in Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Kopfgeburten order Die Deutschen sterben aus
  • 'Aus der Geschichte gefallen': displacing the author in Der Butt and Die Rättin
  • 'Mich ... in Variationen ... erzählen' II: reconstructing the author in Zunge zeigen and Mein Jahrhundert
  • 'Er, in dessen Namen ich krebsend vorankam': reading the author in Ein weites Feld and Im Krebsgang.