Cambridge Companion to Gunter Grass

Klappentext New essays for students of German's best-known living author and his works! including The Tin Drum. Zusammenfassung This Companion offers wide coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works! including literature! television and visual arts. The newly commissioned essays explain! in a fresh and lively fashion! the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Stuart Taberner; 1. Biography as politics Julian Preece; 2. Günter Grass's political rhetoric Frank Finlay; 3. The exploratory fictions of Günter Grass Patrick O' Neill; 4. Günter Grass and magical realism Peter Arnds; 5. Günter Grass's 'Danzig Quintet' Katharina Hall; 6. Günter Grass and gender Helen Finch; 7. Authorial construction in Günter Grass's prose Rebecca Braun; 8. Günter Grass's apocalyptic visions Monika Shafi; 9. Günter Grass and German unification Stephen Brockmann; 10. Günter Grass's Peeling the Onion Stuart Taberner; 11. Günter Grass as poet Karen Leeder; 12. Günter Grass and art Richard Erich Schade; 13. Günter Grass as dramatist David Barnett; 14. Film adaptations of Günter Grass's prose work Roger Hillman; 15. Günter Grass and his contemporaries in East and West Stuart Parkes; Guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Taberner, Stuart (University of Leeds) Taberner
• Assisted by: Stuart Taberner (Editor), Stuart (University of Leeds) Taberner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521700191
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70019-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies