Taboos in German Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Students of German Literature will have asked themselves at one stage or another why certain topics have received saturation treatment of the last two centuries while others have been either ignored entirely or at best grossly neglected. This book tackles this fascinating issue and illuminates why, at various junctures, specific topics and attitudes were regarded by influential sections of society as being either inadmissable or presentable only in particular, prescribed ways. While the presentation of sexual matters such as homosexuality and lesbianism is inevitably at the heart of the book, political, social, and ideological issues also loom large. The editor has recruited a team of prominent scholars to provide a penetrating, comprehensive focus that ranges from individual writers and their works, i.e., Goethe, Hölderlin, Kafka, and Thomas Mann, to specific issues, movements and periods.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-06-13
Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571818812

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Chapter 1. Text and Sub-text: Reflections on the Literary Exploration of Taboo ExperienceM. SwalesChapter 2. "Velorene Töchter": Reticence and Ambiguity in German Domestic Drama in the Late Eighteenth CenturyE. McInnesChapter 3. Saying and Not-saying in Hölderlin's WorkD. ConstantineChapter 4. Taboos in Poetic-Realist WritersD. JacksonChapter 5. Of Madness and Masochism: Sexuality in Women's Writing at the Turn of the CenturyC. WeedonChapter 6. The Double Taboo: Male Bodies in Kafka's Der ProzeßE. BoaChapter 7. The Frustrated Poet: Homosexuality and Taboo in Der Tod in VenedigT. J. ReedChapter 8. Discovering a Taboo: the Nazi Past in Literary-political Discourse 1958-1967H. PeitschChapter 9. Inarticulacy: Lesbianism and Language in post-1945 German LiteratureG. PaulChapter 10. Sex and Politics: the Case of the GDRJ.H. ReidNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex