The representation of war in German literature : from 1800 to the present / Elisabeth Krimmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, Handke, and Jelinek reveal that stylistic and aesthetic features, gender discourses, and concepts of agency and victimization can all undermine a text's martial stance or its ostensible pacifist agenda. Spanning the period from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to the recent wars in Yugoslavia and Iraq, this book investigates the aesthetic, theoretical, and historical challenges that confront writers of war.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars : overview

3. War and the sublime : Schiller

4. War and terror : Kleist

5. The First World War : overview

6. War and myth : Jünger

7. War and the body : Remarque

8. The Second World War : overview

9. War and victimization : Böll

10. War and accountability : Grass

11. Yugoslavia and Iraq : overview

12. War and peace : Handke

13. War and the media : Jelinek

14. Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20539-5

0-511-84740-8

1-282-63080-6

9786612630804

0-511-74932-5

0-511-75007-2

0-511-74352-1

0-511-74245-2

0-511-75081-1

0-511-74461-7

OCLC:

638859703