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Author Thesz, Nicole A., 1971- author.

Title The communicative event in the works of Günter Grass : stages of speech, 1959-2015 / Nicole A. Thesz
Published Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Contents Die Blechtrommel: the language of judgment -- Katz und Maus: empty words and dangerous rhetoric -- Hundejahre: between revelation and obfuscationart -- Ortlich betaubt: student protest and pedagogical dialogue -- Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke: family conversations and political speech -- Der Butt: the struggle for communicative dominance -- Das Treffen in Telgte: debates in a literary forum -- Die Rattin: existence and speech after apocalypse -- Unkenrufe: east-west exchanges and the remembrance business -- Ein weites Feld: rhetorical performance in the new Berlin -- Mein Jahrhundert: an exercise in oral history -- Im Krebsgang: facing a discourse of hatred -- Beim Hauten der Zwiebel: dialogues with memory -- Die Box: conversations around the family album -- Grimms Worter: deliberations on language and legacy
Summary A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787441743
1787441741