Suicide in East German literature : (Record no. 521247)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781787440593 (ebook) |
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| Classification number | 830.93548 |
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| Personal name | Blankenship, Robert, |
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| Title | Suicide in East German literature : |
| Remainder of title | fiction, rhetoric, and the self-destruction of literary heritage / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Robert Blankenship. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (193 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
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| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Sep 2018). |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Suicide in literature. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | German literature |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787440593/type/BOOK |
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| -- | 1980- |
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| -- | Rochester, New York : |
| -- | Camden House, |
| -- | 2017. |
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| -- | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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| -- | The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history. Robert Blankenship is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach. |
| -- | Germany (East) |
| -- | History and criticism. |
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| -- | Print version: |
| -- | 9781571135742 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Mysore University Main Library | Mysore University Main Library | 23/06/2020 | EBCU513 | 23/06/2020 | Ebooks |