Ulrike Draesner : : A Companion / / ed. by Karen Jane Leeder, Lyn Marven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Biendarra, Anke S.,; Braun, Michael,; Cosgrove, Mary,; Draesner, Ulrike,; Döring, Tobias,; Horstkotte, Silke,; Jeremiah, Emily,; Leeder, Karen,; Marven, Lyn,; Reumkens, Noël,; Schilling, Erik,; Suerbaum, Almut,
• HerausgeberIn: Leeder, Karen Jane,; Marven, Lyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Companions to Contemporary German Culture , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 300 p.)

Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising on the interest in her work in Germany and further afield. Introducing Draesner’s major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essays, as well as giving an overview of existing research focusing on migration, memory, science, gender and bodily experience, chapters by international scholars in this volume also break new ground by focussing on visual culture, poetology, nature, the posthuman and Draesner’s reception of English literature and medieval culture. A comprehensive bibliography, commissioned interview and original writing by Draesner make the volume a valuable research tool for scholars and students. This will become essential reading for all those interested in Draesner, women’s writing, literature and history, and contemporary German prose and poetry.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- A Note on Translations -- Illustrations -- History and the Text -- Narrating History. Ulrike Draesner’s Lichtpause, Spiele, and Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt -- Regenerating Europe in Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt -- Voices from the Past? Poetic Presence of Medieval References -- The Limits of the Human -- Just Hanging in There. Reproduction, Humanity and Ethics in the Work of Ulrike Draesner -- Photography and the Posthuman in Ulrike Draesner’s Mitgift and Vorliebe -- ‘Twin Spin’. Ulrike Draesner’s Poetry of Science -- Beyond Form(s) -- The Connection between Body, Language and Image. Intermediality in Ulrike Draesner’s Poetry -- Ulrike Draesner’s Short Stories. The Intensity of Form -- ‘Stoffwechsel’ -- Metamorphosis. Ulrike Draesner’s Poetics of Knowledge -- German Is a Foreign Anguish. Draesner and the Sprite of Translation -- Ode to the Secret Atomic Flow of the World. Mein Hiddensee -- The Felt Self -- The Indecipherable Stone. Interview with Ulrike Draesner on the Processes of Literature -- Schwitters -- Poems -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index