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UNINA9910784507003321 |
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German literature in the age of globalisation / / edited by Stuart Taberner |
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Birmingham, England : , : The University of Birmingham : , : University Press, , [2004] |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-4411-3177-9 |
1-281-29552-3 |
9786611295523 |
1-84714-177-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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The New Germany in context |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
German literature - 21st century - History and criticism |
Germany Intellectual life 20th century Congresses |
Germany Intellectual life 21st century Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers presented at a one day workshop at the School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds, May 2002--Acknowledgments (page [xi]). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: German literature in the age of globalisation; 2 East German writing in the age of globalisation; 3 'Was will ich denn als Westdeutscher erzählen?': The 'old' West and globalisation in recent German prose; 4 Germany as background: global concerns in recent women's writing in German; 5 The German province in the age of globalisation: Botho Strauß, Arnold Stadler and Hans-Ulrich Treichel; 6 A matter of perspective: prose débuts in contemporary German literature; 7 Not top of the pops? - Martin Walser's writing since 1990 |
8 Denouncing globalisation: Ingo Schramm's Fitchers Blau9 German pop literature and cultural globalisation; 10 'Dann wäre Deutschland wie das Wort Neckarrauen': surface, superficiality and globalisation in Christian Kracht's Faserland; 11 Writing by ethnic minorities in the age |
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of globalisation; 12 The globalisation of memory and the rediscovery of German suffering; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Literary fiction in Germany has long been a medium for contemplation of the 'nation' and questions of national identity. From the mid-1990s, in the wake of heated debates on the future direction of culture, politics and society in a more 'normal', united country, German literature has become increasingly diverse and seemingly disparate - at the one extreme, it represents the attempt to 'reinvent' German traditions, at the other, the unmistakable influence of Anglo-American forms and pop literature. A shared concern of almost all of recent German fiction, however, is the contemporary debate on |
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