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The representation of war in German literature : = from 1800 to the present /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The representation of war in German literature :/ Elisabeth Krimmer.
Reminder of title:	from 1800 to the present /
Author:	Krimmer, Elisabeth,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	German literature - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750816
ISBN:	9780511750816 (ebook)

The representation of war in German literature : = from 1800 to the present /
Krimmer, Elisabeth,1967-

The representation of war in German literature :from 1800 to the present /Elisabeth Krimmer. - 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction --1.

The history of literature about war is marked by a fundamental paradox: although war forms the subject of countless novels, dramas, poems, and films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers strive towards an ideal of authenticity, they maintain that no representation can do justice to the terror and violence of war. Readings of Schiller, Kleist, Jünger, Remarque, Grass, Böll, Handke, and Jelinek reveal that stylistic and aesthetic features, gender discourses, and concepts of agency and victimization can all undermine a text's martial stance or its ostensible pacifist agenda. Spanning the period from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to the recent wars in Yugoslavia and Iraq, this book investigates the aesthetic, theoretical, and historical challenges that confront writers of war.

ISBN: 9780511750816 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799548
German literature
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PT148.W3 / K755 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 840.9/3581

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