Negotiating Positions : : Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen /

Negotiating Positions : : Literature, Identity and Social Critique in the Works of Wolfgang Koeppen / / Simon Ward.

This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in Koeppen's writings, this book demonstrates that the politics of his works are inherent to their form. Th...

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Superior document:Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 146
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Ward, Simon
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 146.
Physical Description:1 online resource (158 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE: STATES OF LIMINALITY
  • SECTION ONE: LOCATING THE LIMINAL SUBJECT: CHAPTER TWO: PLAYING ROLES
  • CHAPTER THREE: WRITING A HOME BETWEEN HOMES
  • SECTION TWO: COMPROMISE AND CRITIQUE: CHAPTER FOUR: THE LIMITS OF NEGOTIATION
  • CHAPTER FIVE: THE UNHOMELY RUINS: THE POLITICS OF NATION
  • CHAPTER SIX: LIMINALITY IN THE FICTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CLASSIFICATION BY SUBJECT LIST:
  • LITERATURE AND CULTURE, GERMAN, 20TH CENTURY.

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