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  • Authors and the World: Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

    Authors and the World by Braun, Rebecca;

    Literary Authorship in Modern Germany

    Series: New Directions in German Studies;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 21 March 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781501391064
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 214x134x22 mm
    • Weight 440 g
    • Language English
    • 547

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    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, Günter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Höllerer, 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 a number of models of authorship that carry either foundational or otherwise normative force for society. In varying combinations and with deep roots in 19th- and early 20th-century practices, the four modes of authorship create a remarkably (and at times troublingly) stable German literature network that to a large degree still determines the way contemporary German-speaking authors enact their cultural significance in their writing, engage with their local circumstances, and are more broadly received around the world.

    Authors and the World provides not just a radically new approach to German literary history but a thoroughly new paradigm for thinking about literary authorship.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures
    Acknowledgements
    Note on Translations
    Introduction: Rethinking Goethe's World Literature through Questions of Authorship
    1. Four Modes of Authorship across the German Twentieth Century
    2. The Exemplary Creator: Modelling Authorship in Post-War West Germany
    3. The Exemplary Pedagogue: Alternative Foundations for Belonging in the GDR
    4. Mediating Authorship in Berlin and Frankfurt, 1959-1989
    5. After the Death of the Author: The Rise of the Utopian Mode, 1988-2018
    6. New Collaborations: Models of Transnational Authorship in Contemporary German-speaking Europe
    In Conversation: Ulrike Draesner: On Creating Contexts for Literature
    In Conversation: Olga Martynova on Living in Multiple Literary Worlds
    In Conversation: Ulrike Almut Sandig on Collaborating across Media, Genres, and Countries
    Bibliography
    Index

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