Negation and Utopia The German Volksst Uck from Raimund to Kroetz |
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Author:
| Jones, Calvin N. |
Series title: | Studies in Modern German Literature |
ISBN: | 978-0-8204-2075-2 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1993 |
Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $52.95 |
Book Description:
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This examination of the German
Volksstück from its literary beginning through the present offers close readings of representative plays by Raimund, Nestroy, Anzengruber, Thoma, Fleißer, Horváth, Brecht, and Kroetz. The theoretical approach, developed in the introduction, employs the thought of Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch to analyze the varying formal means attempted by authors in different historical situations to express a negation of the status quo while at the same time...
More DescriptionThis examination of the German Volksstück from its literary beginning through the present offers close readings of representative plays by Raimund, Nestroy, Anzengruber, Thoma, Fleißer, Horváth, Brecht, and Kroetz. The theoretical approach, developed in the introduction, employs the thought of Theodor Adorno and Ernst Bloch to analyze the varying formal means attempted by authors in different historical situations to express a negation of the status quo while at the same time imaging a utopian solution for the Volk. This study's detailed discussion of individual plays should be of use to Germanists, but its method and its overview of the genre should make it of interest to the non-specialist as well.