Overview
- Series
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. - Format
- Book
- Published
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018
©2018 - Locale
- Deutschland
- Contents
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Introduction
Part I. Speech and survival : precarious identities in the Danzig Trilogy. Die Blechtrommel : the language of judgment
Katz und Maus : empty words and dangerous rhetoric
Hundejahre : between revelation and obfuscation
Part II. Educating the public : democracy and dialogue in the mid-career novels. Örtlich betäubt : student protest and pedagogical dialogue
Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke : family conversations and political speech
Der Butt : the struggle for communicative dominance
Das Treffen in Telgte : debates in a literary forum
Die Rättin : existence and speech after apocalypse
Part III. Confronting memory : cross-cultural encounters in post-wall fiction. Unkenrufe : east-west exchanges and the remembrance business
Ein weites Feld : rhetorical performance in the new Berlin
Mein Jahrhundert : an exercise in oral history
Im Krebsgang : facing a discourse of hatred
Part IV. The mediated self : communicative approaches in autobiography. Beim Häuten der Zwiebel : dialogues with memory
Die Box : conversations around the family album
Grimms Wörter : deliberations on language and legacy
Epilogue : taking leave in Vonne Endlichkait. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-280) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Speech and survival : precarious identities in the Danzig Trilogy. Die Blechtrommel : the language of judgment -- Katz und Maus : empty words and dangerous rhetoric -- Hundejahre : between revelation and obfuscation -- Part II. Educating the public : democracy and dialogue in the mid-career novels. Örtlich betäubt : student protest and pedagogical dialogue -- Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke : family conversations and political speech -- Der Butt : the struggle for communicative dominance -- Das Treffen in Telgte : debates in a literary forum -- Die Rättin : existence and speech after apocalypse -- Part III. Confronting memory : cross-cultural encounters in post-wall fiction. Unkenrufe : east-west exchanges and the remembrance business -- Ein weites Feld : rhetorical performance in the new Berlin -- Mein Jahrhundert : an exercise in oral history -- Im Krebsgang : facing a discourse of hatred -- Part IV. The mediated self : communicative approaches in autobiography. Beim Häuten der Zwiebel : dialogues with memory -- Die Box : conversations around the family album -- Grimms Wörter : deliberations on language and legacy -- Epilogue : taking leave in Vonne Endlichkait.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781571139566
1571139567 - Physical Description
- x, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
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