Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of volume 8 in the
Bradford Series on Contemporary German Literature.
Julian Preece / Osman Durrani (eds.)
CITYSCAPES AND COUNTRYSIDE IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN
LITERATURE (Bern: Lang, 2004)
329 pp.
Volume 8 in the Bradford Series on Contemporary
German Literature
ISBN 3-03910-065-3 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6881-9 pb.
sFr. 85.00 / EUR* 58.00 / EUR** 54.20 / £ 38.00 / US-$
64.95 * includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
Most of the chapters in this volume were delivered as
papers at a conference on the same theme held at the
University of Kent in April 2002. The essays collected
here, by scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, and the
US, address a topic of fundamental concern across all the
disciplines engaged with the study of contemporary Germany:
the evolving relationship between urban and rural space,
the metropolitan centre and the provincial "Heimat". The
volume identifies and investigates a number of recent
trends: the emergence of 'eco-literature', the renaissance
of writing - in prose and verse - inspired by the new
Berlin, the realignment of regional sensibilities, which is
complicated by the troubled tradition of "Heimat" in all
its literary manifestations, and the continuing
disjunctions between East and West. Individual essays
engage with the work of established writers (Günter de
Bruyn, Hubert Fichte, Peter Handke, WG Sebald, Siegfried
Lenz, Martin Walser, and Elfriede Jelinek) and emerging
talents (Georg Klein, Christof Hamann, Ludwig Laher, and
Arnold Stadler).
Contents:
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Stefan Neuhaus: 'Stadt-Land-Frust': on the Metamorphoses of
a Literary Dichotomy
- Ruth J Owen: 'Germania im Bunker': German Urban
Landscapes in Contemporary Poetry
- Chloe Paver: Down and Out in the New Germany: Urban
Homelessness in Post-'Wende' Fiction
- Robert Gillett: An Index and its Chronicle: Hubert
Fichte's "Hamburg (Hauptbahnhof)"
- Alexander Gumz: The Novel as the City's Body: Georg
Klein's "Libidissi"
- Andreas Kramer: 'die unerheblichkeit berlins':
Contemporary German Poetry and the Re-Writing of
Regionalism
- David Rock: Landscapes, Towns, and Cities from the Banta
to Berlin in Richard Wagner's Stories and Novels
- Christina Ujma: All Quiet on the Italian Front? The Image
of Rome in Contemporary German Prose
- Robert Halsall: Phenomenology of the Suburb: Peter
Handke's "Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht"
- Arthur Williams: WG Sebald: Probing the Outer Edges of
Nature
- Axel Goodbody: Greening the City: Günter Seuren's
Satirical Account of an Urban Conservation Project in "Die
Krötenküsser"
- Simon Meacher: Anthropocentrism in Siegfried Lenz's
"Exerzierplatz" and "Die Auflehnung"
- Owen Evans: Living in the Past? Günter de Bruyn, Prussia,
and the Mark Brandenburg
- Stuart Parkes: Home Advantage? The Settings of Martin
Walser's Novels and the Question of Heimat
- Dieter Stolz: Province as Microcosm or 'im Kleinen das
Grosse aufschreiben': Christof Hamann's Debut Novel
"Seegfrörne"
- Juliet Wigmore: Crime, Corruption, Capitalism: Elfriede
Jelinek's "Gier"
- Susan Tebbutt: The Politicised Pastoral Idyll in Ludwig
Laher's 'Heimatroman', "Herzfleischentartung"
- Gregory Knott: 'Zwischen Sehnsucht und Vergänglichkeit':
Arnold Stadler's Concept of Heimat.
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Julian Preece
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