Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin

This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.

List of contents

Introduction Andrew J. Webber; 1. Literature and the Enlightenment Matt Erlin; 2. Romantic sociability, aesthetics and politics Jürgen Barkhoff; 3. Literary realism and naturalism John B. Lyon; 4. Short prose around 1900 Anne Fuchs; 5. Modernist writing and visual culture Carolin Duttlinger; 6. Writing under National Socialism Reinhard Zachau; 7. Writing in the Cold War Alison Lewis; 8. Writing after the Wall Katharina Gerstenberger; 9. Women writers and gender Lyn Marven; 10. Queer writing Andreas Kraß and Benedikt Wolf; 11. Berlin as a migratory setting Yasemin Yildiz; 12. Modern drama and theatre David Barnett; 13. Twentieth-century poetry Gerrit-Jan Berendse.

About the author

Andrew J. Webber is Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on German and comparative textual and visual culture. His books include Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (Cambridge, 2008). He has held visiting positions at a number of international institutions, most recently the Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in Global Literary Studies at the University of Tübingen.

Summary

This book will appeal to anybody interested in the city of Berlin and the development of its literary culture. It provides both stimulating readings of canonical texts and insights into less familiar material, setting these in the cultural context of writing in and about Berlin since 1750.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Webber, Andrew J. Webber, Andrew J. (University of Cambridge) Webber
• Assisted by: Andrew Webber (Editor), Andrew J Webber (Editor), Andrew J. Webber (Editor), Andrew J. (University of Cambridge) Webber (Editor), Webber Andrew J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107661011
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66101-1
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Germany, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, german, Literary studies: general, Literary essays