Balancing acts : textual strategies of Peter Henisch / edited and with an introduction by Craig Decker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Decker, Craig, 1956-

Series:

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Henisch, Peter, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Henisch, Peter.

Henisch, Peter, 1943-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, [2002]

Contents:

Reading Peter Henisch Balance: An Introduction / Craig Decker 1

"Henisch, Father and Son": Masculinity, Art, and the Narrative of (Austrian) Shame / Jeffrey Schneider 7

Papa's Nazi Past and the Anxiety of Influence: Peter Henisch's Die kleine Figur meines Vaters / Kathy Brzovic 40

The Lizard-King Can Do Anything: Hybridity and the Cultural Logic of Globalization in Morrisons Versteck / Friedemann Weidauer 54

"The Inner Movie Screen": Film in/and Hoffmanns Erzahlungen and Morrisons Versteck / Jenifer K. Ward 74

A Morphology of Fragments in Hoffmanns Erzahlungen / Bohdan Bochan 101

The Ironic Case of Austro/Jewish Identity: Psycho-Political Rhetoric in Steins Paranoia / Kathy Brzovic, Craig Decker 131

The Collective Nature of Subjective Crisis: Peter Henisch's Der Mai ist vorbei / Helga Schreckenberger 146

Literary Dialogues and Dialogic Literature: Peter Henisch's Vom Wunsch, Indianer zu werden / Antje Harnisch 166

The Politics of Quotation in Henisch's Poetics / Arnd Bohm 185

Intertextual Satire and the Affluent Society: Production, Consumption, and Kommt eh der Komet / Craig Decker 210

Facts and Fiction: On the Process of Development in and to Schwarzer Peter / Eva Schobel 228

The Jambalaya Principle: Otherness and Multiculturalism in Schwarzer Peter / Jennifer E. Michaels 242

"A Person Who Is Normal ... Doesn't Write": A Conversation with Peter Henisch / Anne Close Ulmer 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-288) and index.

ISBN:

1572411120

OCLC:

50023138