Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern Germany Braun Rebecca
Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of…
Specifikacia Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern Germany Braun Rebecca
Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of Thomas Mann, Gnter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Hllerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja Petrowskaja, and original interview material with contemporary writers Ulrike Draesner, Olga Martynova and Ulrike Almut Sandig. 'Modes of authorship' are attitudes taken towards being an author that can be seen both in what an individual author does and in how a particular literary tradition or trend is perceived and mediated by others both within and beyond Pierre Bourdieu's literary field. Consequently, they deliberately straddle questions of literary production and reception.Rebecca Braun sets out how the commemorative, celebratory, utopian and satirical modes interact with one another to produce