German text crimes : : writers accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s / / edited by Tom Cheesman.

German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950's. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hoc...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:German monitor ; no. 77
German Monitor 77.
Physical Description:1 online resource (253 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: incriminating texts
  • with reflections on the justiciability of [Zaimoglu's] Esra and [Biller's] Leyla / Tom Cheesman
  • 'Part woodcutter and part charlatan': Tom Paulin's Heidegger / Duncan Large
  • Writing wrongs: Ingeborg Bachmann's poetic drafts of the 1960s and their contemporary reception / Aine McMurtry
  • Offending the playwright: directors' theatre and the 'Werktreue' debate / David Barnett
  • Porn or porNO: approaches to pornography in Elfriede Jelinek's Lust and Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete / Heike Bartel
  • Text crimes against the GDR's revolutionary heritage: the differing fates of Wolf Biermann and Wenzel and Mensching / David Robb
  • Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers: a 'crime' of anti-semitism? / Stuart Parkes
  • Justice for Peter Handke? / Karoline von Oppen
  • Text crimse in the shadow of the Holocaust: the case of Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser/The reader / Katharina Hall
  • Incitements to murder? The killing of businessmen in fiction and drama of the 2000s / Julian Preece.