Colleagues who use short narrative texts in their classrooms and who want
to introduce students to secondary literature, might be interested in the
following new publication:
Prose Pieces: Irish Germanists Interpret German Short and Very Short
Narrative Texts. Edited by Jeff Morrison and Florian Krobb. (= Germanistik
in Ireland, Schriftenreihe, 1).
Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 2008. 242 pp. 20 EURO. ISSN: 1865-8075. ISBN-13:
978-3-86628-185-1.
Hartung-Gorre Verlag, D-78465 Konstanz.
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www.hartung-gorre.de
From the leading writers like Lichtenberg, Kleist, Hebel, Robert Walser,
Kafka, Canetti and Eich to less prominent figures such as Klabund,
Qualtinger or Rotenberg, the field of short and very short prose in German
is extremely rich and varied. This volume offers analyses of a range of
representative short prose pieces. The contributions combine descriptions
of the historical and literary contexts of the works with discussions of
formal and generic considerations, this with a view to offering accessible
introductions to the study of these particular texts and of short texts
generally. They are intended to serve as an introduction for students of
German and general readership alike. Access is further enabled by the
provision of translations of the texts and of any other German terms or
phrases deployed. In terms of historical range, the volume covers examples
stretching from the 1770s until the 1990s, beginning with the emergence of
the ‘modern’ aesthetic discourse in the late eighteenth century and
covering material from the nineteenth century, early twentieth-century
modernism and the post-1945 period.
Contents:
Florian Krobb and Jeff Morrison
German Short and Very Short Prose: Introduction
Jeff Morrison
Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Two Italian Anecdotes
Rachel MagShamhráin
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Sudelbücher (1765-1799)
Sascha Harris
Friedrich Hölderlin: Über Achill (1799)
Eoin Bourke
Johann Peter Hebel: Unverhofftes Wiedersehen (1810)
Jochen Bedenk
Heinrich von Kleist Baxer Anecdote (1811)
Siobhán Donovan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Der alte Großvater und der Enkel /
Die Sterntaler (1812)
Florian Krobb
Theodor Storm: ‘Dree to Bedd’ (1845)
Florian Krobb
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Die Brüder (1909)
Karl-Bernhard Bödeker
Franz Kafka: Vor dem Gesetz (1915)
Arnd Witte
Franz Kafka: Auf der Galerie (1918)
Noel Deeney
Klabund: Die heiligen sieben Schläfer (1921)
Valerie Heffernan
Robert Walser: Lange wohnte sie nun schon im Turm der Geduld (1929)
Hans-Christian Oeser
Bertolt Brecht: Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären (1948)
Regina Standún
Jeannie Ebner: Fortschritt (1956)
Una Carthy
Heinrich Böll: Redensarten (1957)
Regina Standún
Helmut Qualtinger: Die Ahndlvertilgung (1958)
Eoin Bourke
Heinrich Böll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral (1963)
Moray McGowan
Günter Kunert: Das Bild der Schlacht am Isonzo (1964)
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Elias Canetti: Die Brotwahl (1968)
Andreas Stuhlmann
Günter Eich: Ein Nachwort von König Midas (1968)
Eoin Bourke
Stella Rotenberg: Chronik (1986)
Carmel Finnan
Peter Bichsel: Das Lob der Armut (1991)
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