--- Geoffrey Plow <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication by Peter
> Lang of the following
> title:
>
> Irmtraud Morgner: Adventures in Knowledge, 1959-1974
> Geoffrey Plow
>
> This new assessment of the literary development of
> Irmtraud Morgner (1933-
> 1990) liberates her from a critical straitjacket
> that has seen her early
> and middle-period works as essentially constrained
> and thwarted by state
> prescriptions. He demonstrates that Morgner always
> had an organically
> evolving literary programme of her own.
>
> He uncovers a writer with a vision of ideology and
> democracy as humanised,
> intimate and personal. The author draws on
> Morgner’s own diaries to
> demonstrate how she rechannelled into later works
> material that had been
> banned by the censor. Morgner emerges as a figure
> whose work is deeply
> pertinent to our twenty-first century
> preoccupations, be they in the West
> or East. The author advances powerful arguments for
> the value of six of
> her novels as key illustrations of her trust in the
> individual’s capacity
> to give meaning to life without recourse to
> established ideological
> structures.
>
> More information and a table of contents are
> available at:
> www.peterlang.com.
>
> Thank you.
>
> With best wishes
>
> Dr Geoffrey Plow
> University College School
> Frognal
> London NW3 6XH
> [Tel: 020 7433 2302]
>
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