The Cambridge companion to Günter Grass / edited by Stuart Taberner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taberner, Stuart, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.

Grass, Günter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. This Companion offers the widest coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. Throughout, there is particular emphasis on Grass's literary style, the creative personality which inhabits all his work, and the impact on his reputation of revelations about his early involvement with Nazism. The volume sets out, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works.

Contents:

Introduction / Stuart Taberner

Biography as politics / Julian Preece

Günter Grass's political rhetoric / Frank Finlay

The exploratory fictions of Günter Grass / Patrick O'Neill

Günter Grass and magical realism / Peter Arnds

Günter Grass's 'Danzig quintet' / Katharina Hall

Günter Grass and gender / Helen Finch

Authorial construction in From the diary of a snail and The meeting at Telgte / Rebecca Braun

Günter Grass's apocalyptic visions / Monika Shafi

Günter Grass and German unification / Stephen Brockmann

Günter Grass's Peeling the onion / Stuart Taberner

Günter Grass as poet / Karen Leeder

Günter Grass and art / Richard Erich Schade

Günter Grass as dramatist / David Barnett

Film adaptations of Günter Grass's prose work / Roger Hillman

Günter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West / Stuart Parkes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-80163-5

1-139-00261-9