Edinburgh German Yearbook 11 - Love, Eros, and Desire in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture

New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium.

List of contents

Introduction: Love, Literature, (Post-)Modernity: On the Re-Emergence of Love in Contemporary German Literature - Helmut Schmitz
Not so Happily Ever After: Romantic Love in Novels by Alain Claude Sulze - Esther K. Bauer
Love as Literature: Hanns-Josef Ortheil's Die große Liebe - Helmut Schmitz
Healthy Socialists and Kinky Heroes: Carnivalesque Deconstruction of Heteronormativity in Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir - Sven Glawion
Disembodied Love and Desire: Virtual Love in Daniel Glattauer's Gut gegen Nordwind - Angelika Vybiral
Thomas Mann in Furs: Remediations of Sadomasochism in Maxim Biller's Im Kopf von Bruno Schulz and Harlem Holocaust - Maria Roca Lizarazu
Precarious Subjects, Vulnerable Love: Thomas Melle's 3000 Euro, Feridun Zaimoglu's Isabel and Julia Wolf's Alles ist jetzt - Silke Horstkotte
Love as Anathema: Social Constraints and the Demise of Desire in Fatih Akin's Gegen die Wand - Sarra Kassem

About the author

Helmut Schmitz, Peter Davies

Summary

New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davies, Helmut Schmitz
• Assisted by: Peter Davies (Editor), Helmut Schmitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781571139788
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-978-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook; Edinburgh German Yearbook
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories