This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterised Grass's relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.
| ISBN: | 9780199542703 |
| Publication date: | 26th June 2008 |
| Author: | Rebecca University of Liverpool Braun |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 210 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterised Grass's relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.
Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass is available in Hardback
Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass was written by Rebecca University of Liverpool Braun and published by Oxford University Press
Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass has 210 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs series