German literature in the age of globalisation / / edited by Stuart Taberner

• Pubblicazione: Birmingham, England : , : The University of Birmingham : , : University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.90092
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 20th century - History and criticism; German literature - 21st century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Intellectual life 20th century Congresses; Germany Intellectual life 21st century Congresses
• Persona (resp. second.): TabernerStuart
• Note generali: Papers presented at a one day workshop at the School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds, May 2002--Acknowledgments (page [xi]).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 of globalisation; 12 The globalisation of memory and the rediscovery of German suffering; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: German literature in the age of globalisation
• ISBN: 1-4411-3177-9; 1-281-29552-3; 9786611295523; 1-84714-177-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784507003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Germany in context.