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Metamorphosis in Modern German Literature - Transforming Bodies, Identities and Affects

English · Hardback

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Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place does it have in modern Germany? Tara Beaney analyses metamorphosis in literary texts from the Romantic period onwards, focusing on the affects involved. This emphasis allows for a unique insight into ways of experiencing bodily change, into threatened identities, and into changing affective styles across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from canonical texts by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Franz Kafka to the work of post-war and post-Wende writers Marie Luise Kaschnitz and Jenny Erpenbeck, as well as the cross-cultural writer Yoko Tawada, this study shows how narratives of metamorphosis help us negotiate the social and political changes, and the experience of shifting boundaries and identities, that are so pertinent to modern Germany.

Tara Beaney is Lecturer in German at the University of Aberdeen.

Product details

Authors Tara Beaney
Publisher Legenda
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 19.12.2016
 
EAN 9781909662841
ISBN 978-1-909662-84-1
No. of pages 196
Dimensions 175 mm x 250 mm x 15 mm
Weight 527 g
Series Germanic Literatures
Germanic Literatures
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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