Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser - The Mannerism of a Late Period

Explores the performance of aging in the "late style" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Old-Age Societies - Old-Age Style
Old-Age Style and Self-Monumentalization in Günter Grass
Old-Age Style and Self-Healing in Ruth Klüger and Christa Wolf
Old-Age Style and Self-Transcendence in Martin Walser
Conclusion: Old-Age Style as Late Style?
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Stuart Taberner

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Taberner
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2013
• EAN: 9781571135780
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-578-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 521 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies