Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass

Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780191562235
ISBN-13 : 0191562238
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Book Synopsis Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass by : Rebecca Braun

Download or read book Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass written by Rebecca Braun and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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