Germans Going Global : Contemporary Literature and Cultural Globalization.
This study examines the impact of globalization on Germany's literary field. It investigates how German-language writers born between 1955 and 1975 respond to the pressures of globalizing factors, and how these influence notions of authorship. The literary marketplace, constructions of authorsh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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Colección: | Interdisciplinary German cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary German Literature and Cultural Globalization; 1 Effects of Globalization on the Literary Marketplace and Contemporary Authorship; Distinctive Features of Germany's Literary Marketplace; Authorship: Changed Paradigms; Showing the Authorial Self; Fräuleinwunder; The Rise of New German Pop Literature; Fashioning the Authorial Self on the World Wide Web; Personal Web Sites as a Medium of Authorial Self Representation; Authorship 2.0: Stephenie Meyer; 2 Globalizing German Literature: Literary Debates around the Millennium.
- Debates among Older Intellectuals ... ist alles so schön bunt hier: Debates on Contemporary Realism; Authentische Alltäglichkeit: Turning towards a Literature of the Authentic Everyday; Ingo Schulze's Simple Storys (1998); Elke Naters's Königinnen (1998) and Lügen (1999); 3 Brave New Work World: Narratives of the New Economy; Recent Developments in the German Economy; The Individual in Precarious Times; A Short History of Work Literature; Narratives of Work in the Aughts.
- The Aesthetics of the Surface: The Work of (M)Ad Men in Joachim Bessing's Wir Maschine (2001) and Rainer Merkel's Das Jahr der Wunder (2001)Economized Bodies: John von Düffel's EGO (2001); The Readability of the World in Ghostly Times: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht (2004); 4 Forms of Social Realism: Unemployment in Contemporary Narratives; Sentenced to Idleness: Annette Pehnt's Mobbing (2007) and Jakob Hein's Herr Jensen steigt aus (2006); Flotsam of Globalization: Joachim Zelter's Die Schule der Arbeitslosen (2006); 5 Traveling Without Moving? Narratives of (Im)Mobility.
- Global Tourists in Judith Hermann's Nichts als Gespenster (2003)Mobile Cosmopolitans in Gregor Hens's Transfer Lounge (2003); Global and Local Violence: Gregor Hens's Matta verlässt seine Kinder (2004); Hedonism Gone Global: Christian Kracht's Der gelbe Bleistift (1999); No Happiness on Earth: Sibylle Berg's Die Fahrt (2007); Retreating to the Province: Florian Illies's Ortsgespräch (2006); 6 Coda: Piles of Authenticity: Narrating 09/11; Works Cited; Index.