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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