The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass
stages of speech, 1959-2015
- Hardcover
306 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2018
Summary
A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.Nobel-laureate novelist and public intellectual Günter Grass was a towering figure among German writers and social critics from the 1950s until his death in 2015. After rising to prominence with the novel The Tin Drum (1959), he assumed the role of the conscience of the German nation. He sustained that position throughou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781571139566 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1571139567 |
| Series: | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Author: | Dr Nicole Nicole Thesz |
| Publisher: | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Imprint: | Camden House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 306 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
[T]he first sustained exploration of the representation of dialogue and communication across [Grass’s] career… . The focus on communication helps Thesz interrogate the hierarchies and power imbalances implicit in Grass’s work, including gender dynamics [and] allows for an examination of how Grass’s texts relate to the evolving public sphere… . Thesz has ambitiously produced thoughtful, close readings of sixteen literary texts. – Timothy Malchow * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Thesz’s knowledge of Grass’s oeuvre is impressive, and the book contributes a new perspective to scholarship by considering all the major works together. – Hester Baer * CHOICE *
About The Author
Dr Nicole Nicole Thesz
NICOLE THESZ is Professor of German at Miami University, Ohio.
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