Heinrich Boll and Ireland / by Gisela Holfter ; with a foreword by Hugo Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holfter, Gisela M. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985.

Böll, Heinrich.

Authors, German--Biography.

Authors, German.

Germans--Ireland--20th century--Biography.

Germans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll's Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) which was first published in 1957, has been read by millions of German readers and has had an unsurpassed impact on the German image of Ireland. But there is much more to Heinrich Böll's relationship with Ireland than the Irisches Tagebuch. In this new book, Böll scholar Gisela Holfter carefully charts Heinrich Böll's personal and literary connections with Ireland and Irish literature from his reading Irish fairytale...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART III; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART IV; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; PART V; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-30874-6

9786613308740

1-4438-3266-9

OCLC:

778616891