The Case of Christian Kracht : : Authorship, Irony, and Globalism / / edited by Marcel Schmid, Jerome Bolton, and Immanuel Nover.
The bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht is as widely celebrated as he is a source of controversy. This introduction to his work suggests locating his writings in discourses that range beyond the labels that have been traditionally assigned to them, namely “postmodernism,” camp,”...
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| Superior document: | German Monishator ; 82 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German Monishator ;
82 Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Interview with Daniel Bowles The English Translator of Christian Kracht's Imperium and The Dead
- Part 1 Negotiating Place and Space: Globalism, Cosmopolitanism, Colonialism
- Chapter 1 Tramps Abroad: Global Nomadism, Narrative Identities, and the Novels of Christian Kracht
- Chapter 2 Failed Utopias of Switzerland in Kracht's Faserland and Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten
- Part 2 Germanness and Finsterworld
- Chapter 3 Kracht's Finsterworld: Inviting a Sinister Reading of What It Means to Be German
- Chapter 4 Faserland (1995) and Finsterworld (2014) - Conceptions of Germany in Text and Film by Christian Kracht and Frauke Finsterwalder
- Part 3 Krachtian Personas: Masculinities and Authorship
- Chapter 5 „Antics right- and leftwing" Autor(schafts)inszenierung und Diskursstörungen in Christian Krachts und David Woodards Five Years (2011)
- Chapter 6 Irony Bites: Post-Pop Mad Men in Christian Kracht's 1979 and Imperium
- Part 4 Tropes - Ironic Games
- Chapter 7 Autorschaft und Ironie bei Christian Kracht
- Chapter 8 Wertungsdebatte um Christian Kracht. Der Autor, das Werk und die Ironie
- Index.