Anne Duden : : a revolution of words approaches to her fiction, poetry and essays / / edite by Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa.

• Superior document: German monitor ; Number 56
• TeilnehmendeR: Bartel, Heike,; Boa, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English; German
• Series: German monitor ; Number 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Nottingham in May, 2001.

Anne Duden’s reputation as one of the most innovative writers of her generation, established in 1982 with the experimental stories in Übergang, was confirmed in 1985 by Das Judasschaf, a novel interweaving an individual’s anguish with the cultural trauma of the German past. In her acclaimed poem cycles Steinschlag (1993) and Hingegend (1999) Duden pushes the limits of language in densely metaphoric evocations of landscapes and places of political and personal remembrance, mixing lament for ruined nature with grotesque comedy, mystic vision with horror. Duden is a distinguished practitioner of short forms. Her essays display the same intense engagement with the visual arts as informs her narrative texts. Her deep interest in music is echoed in the musicality of short prose poems. This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of approaches to Duden's fiction, poetry and essays by international scholars. Topics include: the ethics and aesthetics of Duden’s engagement with German history; her constructions of female subjectivity; her criticism of western dualistic thinking with its devaluation of the body and exploitation of nature; her position within a modernist tradition with roots in the Romantic Age; the visual arts and poetic influences such as Hölderlin and Celan; the dilemmas of translating Duden’s highly individual style. Three essays on Steinschlag constitute the first systematic reading of this difficult, much praised cycle.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa -- Introduction: notes from a symposium - notes towards Hingegend / Elizabeth Boa -- ‚Gestalt aus Bewegung‘ Beobachtungen zu Anne Dudens Kurzprosa und Essayistik / Dirk Göttsche -- Trauma and Terrorism: the problem of violence in the work of Anne Duden / Margaret Littler -- Considering Ethics in the Short Prose of Anne Duden / Stephanie Bird -- Material Movements in Texts by Anne Duden / Teresa Ludden -- Visions of Nature in Texts by Anne Duden Metaphor, Metonym, Morphology / Juliet Wigmore -- Grenzen der Übersetzung Anne Dudens Übergang in englischer und französischer Sprache / Wiebke Sievers -- An Easter of words Steps towards a reading of Anne Duden’s Steinschlag / Georgina Paul -- ‚Bilder […] / aus einem Deutschland / das nie existiert hat‘ Ein Lektürevorschlag zum Anfang von Anne Dudens ‚Steinschlag‘ / Claudia Roth -- ‚Steinatem‘ Zur Metaphorik des Atmens in Anne Dudens ‚Steinschlag‘ / Heike Bartel -- Bibliography / Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa -- Index / Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa -- Notes on Contributors / Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa.