LEADER 04322nam 22006012 450 001 9911008476903321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-94679-X 010 $a9786612946790 010 $a1-57113-796-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571137968 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066439 035 $a(EBL)3003752 035 $a(OCoLC)704517274 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000419109 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11301694 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419109 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10382610 035 $a(PQKB)10376300 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571137968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003752 035 $a(DE-B1597)675783 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571137968 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066439 100 $a20120822d2008|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGu?nter Grass and his critics $efrom the tin drum to Crabwalk /$fSiegfried Mews 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 426 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture : literary criticism in perspective 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-64014-039-5 311 08$a1-57113-062-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDanzig, center of the universe -- Die Blechtrommel / The tin drum -- Katz und Maus / Cat and mouse -- Hundejahre / Dog years -- Danziger Trilogie / The Danzig trilogy -- From Danzig to the global stage: Grass's fiction of the 1970s and 1980s -- O?rtlich beta?ubt / Local anaesthetic -- Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke / From the diary of a snail -- Der Butt / The flounder -- Das Treffen in Telgte / The meeting at Telgte -- Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutshen sterben aus / Headbirths or The Germans are dying out -- Die Ra?ttin / The rat -- Zunge zeigen / Show your tongue -- After reunification: old problems and new beginnings -- Unkenrufe / The call of the toad -- Ein weites Feld / Too far afield -- Mein Jahrhundert / My century -- Im Krebsgang / Crabwalk. 330 $aWhen the Swedish Academy announced that Gu?nter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel 'The Tin Drum' (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled the postwar rebirth of German letters, auguring 'a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.' Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the decidedly mixed and even hostile reactions it initially elicited. Along with 'The Tin Drum,' Grass's impressive body of literary work since the 1950s has spawned a cottage industry of Grass criticism, making a reliable guide through the thicket of sometimes contradictory readings a definite desideratum. Siegfried Mews fills this lacuna in Grass scholarship by way of a detailed but succinct, descriptive as well as analytical and evaluative overview of the scholarship from 1959 to 2005. Grass's politically motivated interventions in public discourse have kept him highly visible, blurring the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Mews therefore examines not only academic criticism but also the daily and weekly press (and other news media), providing additional insight into the reception of Grass's works. Siegfried Mews is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2008. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered).$pLiterary criticism in perspective. 517 3 $aGu?nter Grass & his Critics 606 $aCriticism$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory 676 $a838/.91409 686 $aGN 5052$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aMews$b Siegfried$0457568 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008476903321 996 $aGu?nter Grass and his critics$94429611 997 $aUNINA