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The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass
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Description
This monograph argues that the ethos of "speaking out" is fundamental to Grass's life and work. His approach to the dynamics and manifestations of speech acts has been marginalized in Grass criticism, but is crucial to understanding his fiction. Looking back at Grass's career, this book identifies four phases in terms of communicative strategy and style. Whereas the Danzig trilogy abounds in judgmental and oppressive speech acts, the mid-career novels express the writer's hopes of using dialogue in support of democracy. In turn, the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired novels that feature critical conversations on memory culture amid German unification and the upheaval of the 1990s. Finally, the late autobiographies reveal a search for the private and political self in meditative, internalized monologues about a life lived in language.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 306
- Release Date:
- 2018-02-01
- Publication Date:
- 2018-02-01
- Publisher:
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1571139567
- ISBN13:
- 9781571139566
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 650 g
- Height:
- 157 cm
- Width:
- 235 cm
- Thickness:
- 23 cm
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