Authors and the World traces how four core ‘modes of
authorship’ have developed and inflect one another in modern
Germany through a series of twenty different case studies,
including the work of Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Anna Seghers,
Walter Höllerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja Petrowskaja, and
original interview material with contemporary writers Ulrike
Draesner, Olga Martynova and Ulrike Almut Sandig. ‘Modes of
authorship’ are attitudes taken towards being an author that can
be seen both in what an individual author does and in how a
particular literary tradition or trend is perceived and mediated by
others both within and beyond Pierre Bourdieu’s literary field.
Consequently, they deliberately straddle questions of literary
production and reception. Rebecca Braun sets out how the
commemorative, celebratory, utopian and satirical modes interact
with one another to produce a number of models of authorship that
carry either foundational or otherwise normative force for society.
In varying combinations and with deep roots in 19th- and early
20th-century practices, the four modes of authorship create a
remarkably (and at times troublingly) stable German literature
network that to a large degree still determines the way
contemporary German-speaking authors enact their cultural
significance in their writing, engage with their local
circumstances, and are more broadly received around the world.
Authors and the World provides not just a radically new approach to
German literary history but a thoroughly new paradigm for thinking
about literary authorship.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
New Directions in German Studies |
Release date: |
August 2022 |
Authors: |
Rebecca Braun
(Executive Dean)
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-9102-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5013-9102-X |
Barcode: |
9781501391026 |
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