Ingeborg Bachmann's telling stories : fairy-tale beginnings and holocaust endings / by Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krick-Aigner, Kirsten A.

Series:

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought

Studies in Austrian literature, culture and thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973--Technique.

Bachmann, Ingeborg.

Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973.

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Technique.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, [2002]

Contents:

Writing a Life

Todesarten: Conception and Context

Todesarten: Reception and Historical Context Fairy-tale Scholarship

Bachmann's References to the Fairy Tale

Bachmann's Prose as Historical Narrative

I. "...gazing at Utopia...": The Tradition of the Literary Tale and Malina 41

Malina and the Kagran Tale

Malina as Montage: Folklore and Romantic Imagery in the Kagran Tale

Malina in the Context of the Postwar Austrian Novel

Writing to Survive: Bachmann's Experiences as a Writer in Postwar Austria

II. Into the Bloody Chamber: Rewriting the Bluebeard Tale 79

The German-Language Tradition of the Bluebeard Tale

Defying Bluebeard: Contextualizing Bachmann's References to Bluebeard

III. Bluebeard, Fascism, and Power: References to the Holocaust in Bachmann's Prose 96

Bluebeard Jordan

Bachmann's Personal History and the Third Reich

Bachmann's Relationship to German-Speaking Jewish Writers and Intellectuals

Writing History: Bachmann's Relationship to the German Language

Bachmann's Association of Women with Jews

Bachmann's Prose in the Context of Fictional Accounts of the Holocaust

Bachmann's Coming to Terms with the Holocaust

References to Events of the Holocaust in Malina and Der Fall Franza

Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber: Euthanasia during the Third Reich and Bachmann's Association of the Mentally Ill with Women Intellectuals

"Unfit" Women and "Unfit" Mothers in Der Fall Franza

IV. "A Step towards Gomorrha": Bluebeard, Gender, and Power 144.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-208) and indexes.

ISBN:

1572410965

OCLC:

44446854