Writing Europe

• VerfasserIn: Keller, Ursula, 1940-
• TeilnehmendeR: Keller, Ursula, 1940-; Rakuša, Ilma.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: Multiple; English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 pages):; illustrations, map

Democracy thrives on social dialogue and collective search for solution. As a forum for new ideas and impulses the Körber-Foundation seeks with its projects to involve citizens actively in social discourses. The private, non-profit-making foundation provides a forum for involvement in politics, education, science and international communication. Citizens who take part in competitions and round table discussions organized by the foundation benefit in many ways: they can pass on knowledge, iden ...

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Writing Europe -- Impressions and Conversations during the Intervals -- Europe Untitled -- The Literary Hero as Hero -- Language and Terror -- Europe Has the Shape of My Brain -- The Nursery School Teacher from Tversk Street -- Concentric Circles of Identity -- Europe from the Fringe -- Europe? -- The Western Bloc -- Notes of an Escapist -- Europa’s Lovers -- Woven Into the Web -- Europe in My Prose and My Theatrical Work -- Europe — One Way of Reading It -- A Sort of Huge Portugal -- Europe Writes in Time -- Between the Local and the Universal -- Europe or “Eleuthera, City of the Mnemosyne” -- In the Intimacy of Literary Writing -- Guest Faces -- On the European Ingredient in the Text -- In Memory of Ernst Wiechert -- “We’re All Right.” Europe’s Influence on My Writing -- Oh, Children Smeared with Honey and with Blood -- The Light Falls on Me -- Looking for a Widened Self-Awareness -- Europe, a Blot of Ink -- The Future of Europe -- You Are Leaving the American Sector -- European Literature as a Eurovision Song Contest -- B-Europe -- What Can Lithuania Give to Present-Day Europe -- Unfinished Thoughts