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New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser » (1st ed)

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Authors: Frank Pilipp
ISBN-13: 9781879751675, ISBN-10: 1879751674
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: 1st ed

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Author Biography: Frank Pilipp

Book Synopsis

Critical essays on contemporary German novelist.

Table of Contents

Preface
1The Reestablishment of the German Class Society: Ehen in Philippsburg and Halbzeit1
2Walser's Working Heroes16
3A Merry Departure from the Past? Master-Servant Relations in Bertolt Brecht, Martin Walser, and Volker Braun29
4Reading on the Edge: Martin Walser's California Novel Breakers47
5Martin Walser's Breakers and Walter Kempowski's Dog Days: Reflections of Two Unpolitical Men?63
6Letter to Lord Liszt as an Epistolary Novel79
7Walser's Letter to Lord Liszt and Hofmannsthal's "Letter of Lord Chandos": On Comparing Literary Texts89
8German Unification as Utopia: Martin Walser's Schiller106
9A German Pragmatist: Martin Walser's Literary Essays120
10In Defense of the Past: The Life and Passion of Alfred Dorn in Die Verteidigung der Kindheit134
11The Cultivation of Personal and Political Loss: Die Verteidigung der Kindheit156
Selected Bibliography177
Index191
Notes on Contributors195

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