Herta Müller / edited by Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haines, Brigid, editor.

Marven, Lyn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Müller, Herta, 1953-.

Müller, Herta.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

A critical companion to the works of Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

Contents:

Introduction / Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven

Beyond Realism: Herta Müller's poetics / Katrin Kohl

Beyond the Land of green plums: Romanian culture and language in Herta Müller's work / Alex Drace-Francis

The presence of the unresolved recent past: Herta Müller and the Securitate / Valentina Glajar

"Stadt und Schädel", "Reisende", and "Verlorene": city, self, and survival in Herta Müller's Reisende auf einem Bein / Moray McGowan

A mutilated fox fur: examining the contexts of Herta Müller's imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger / Beverley Driver Eddy

"Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mire, macht nichts": Herta Müller's Romanian novels / Norbert Otto Eke

Return from the archipelago: Herta Müller's Atemschaukel as soft memory / Brigid Haines

"So fremd war das Gebilde": the interaction between visual and verbal in Herta Müller's prose and collages / Lyn Marven

Gender and the sexual politics of exhange in Herta Müller's prose / Karin Bauer

Eastward bound: Herta Müller's international reception / Wiebke Sievers

Herta Müller in translation / Jean Boase-Beier

Life and literature: autobiography, referentiality, and intertextuality in Herta Müller's work / Lyn Marven

Famously literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta Müller's authorial body / Rebecca Braun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780199654642

0199654646

OCLC:

851397096