Revolting Families : : Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties /

Revolting Families : : Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realisms in the German Sixties / / Carrie Smith-Prei.

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Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse on the political significance of the private sphere. Carrie Smith-Prei focuses on debut works by German authors considered to be part of the "new&qu...

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Smith-Prei, Carrie,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2013
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On Realism, Negativity, and Intimacy
  • Chapter One. Trauma, Neurosis, and the Postwar Family: Dieter Wellershoff's Politics of Reading
  • Chapter Two. Repression, Disgust, and Adolescent Memories: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Ethics of Textual Freedom
  • Chapter Three. Consumption, Vertigo, and Childhood Visions: Gisela Elsner's Grotesque Repetitions as Resistance
  • Chapter Four. Discipline, Love, and Authoritative Child-Rearing: Renate Rasp's Satire as Pedagogical Tool
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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