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The representation of war in German literature :

0511750072

052119802X

9780511750076

9780521198028

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The representation of war in German literature :

[Book]

from 1800 to the present /

Elisabeth Krimmer.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2010.

1 online resource (ix, 267 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; 3. The First World War; 4. The Second World War; 5. Yugoslavia and Iraq; 6. Conclusion.

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"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, Elisabeth Krimmer investigates the aesthetic, theoretical, and historical challenges that confront writers of war"--

MIL

263080

Representation of war in German literature.

9780521198028

Böll, Heinrich.

Grass, Günter.

Handke, Peter.

Jelinek, Elfriede.

Jünger, Ernst.

Kleist, Heinrich von.

Remarque, Erich Maria.

Schiller, Friedrich.

German literature-- History and criticism.

War in literature.

German literature.

Krieg

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.

War in literature.

LIT-- 004150

Krimmer, Elisabeth,1967-

20201208015457.0

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