Mapping spaces : reimagining East German society in 1960s fiction / Francesca Goll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goll, Francesca, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

Series:

German life and civilization ; v. 67.

German life and civilization, 0899-9899 ; vol. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany (East)--In literature.

Germany (East).

German fiction--Germany (East)--History and criticism.

German fiction.

Space and time in literature.

Literature.

Bräunig, Werner. Rummelplatz.

Bräunig, Werner.

Neutsch, Erik. Spur der Steine.

Neutsch, Erik.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Summary:

"In the process of negotiating the social and political reality of the GDR, writers played a crucial role. The specific feature of GDR literary texts of the 1960s lies in their attempt at both imagining and representing the emergence of a community that had previously not existed as well as shifting loyalties to promote a sense of common belonging. This study analyses the ways in which Werner Bräunig and Erik Neutsch negotiate this tension in their novels by focusing on spatial and topographical settings. If literary texts map power structures by rewriting cartographies, then the analysis of those spatial dimensions will shed light on the type of societies that are being promoted. Both texts under consideration were written in the 1960s but have been received very differently: while Neutsch's Spur der Steine (1964) became a bestseller, Bräunig's fragment Rummelplatz was only published as a novel posthumously in 2007. Yet they both speak to GDR politics of the 1960s, highlighting the evocative power of literature within the East German context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Aesthetics of Socio-Political Restructuring through the Prism of Mikhail M. Bakhrin and Benedict Anderson p. 21

Part I Werner Bräunig's Rummelplatz (2007) p. 47

Chapter 2 Topography and Mapping p. 49

Chapter 3 Perspectives on Perspectives: The Poetics of Thirdspace and the Self-Reflectivity of the Text p. 97

Chapter 4 Chronotopes and Heteroglossia: 'The novel as epistemological outlaw' p. 115

Part II Erik Neutsch's Spur der Steine (1964) p. 141

Chapter 5 'Wo bleibt die Literaturwissenschaft?' Critical Responses to Spur der Steine p. 143

Chapter 6 The Trace, Poetics and Thirdspace: From 'blaue Blume' to 'Blauhemd' p. 177

Chapter 7 Art(s) and the Chronotope(s) p. 207.

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Nottingham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.

Other Format:

PDF version

ePub version

ISBN:

9781787079151

1787079155

ISSN:

0899-9899

OCLC:

1082208386

Publisher Number:

99980387291

9781787079151