A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin: 65 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1571134603 ISBN 13: 9781571134608

Casa editrice: Camden House, 2010

Riassunto

A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Günter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed therest of Döblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Döblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio. Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Müller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Düsing. Roland Dollinger is Associate Professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German at Oberlin College.

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Dr Alex Davis is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.

Neil Donahue is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Camden House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1571134603
• ISBN 13: 9781571134608
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 326
• Redattore: Krueger Roberta L, Dollinger Professor Roland, Koepke Wulf, Tewarson Heidi Thomann
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile