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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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German Monitor ; v. 77 |
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German monitor.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Incriminating Texts -- With Reflections on theJusticiability of Esra and Leyla; 'Part Woodcutter and Part Charlatan': Tom Paulin's Heidegger; Writing Wrongs: Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetic Drafts of the1960s and their Contemporary Reception; Offending the Playwright: Directors' Theatre and the 'Werktreue' Debate; Porn or PorNO: Approaches to Pornography in ElfriedeJelinek's Lust and Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete; Text Crimes against the GDR's Revolutionary Heritage: TheDiffering Fates of Wolf Biermann and Wenzel and Mensching |
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Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers: A 'Crime' of Anti-Semitism?Justice for Peter Handke?; Text Crimes in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Case ofBernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser/The Reader; Incitements to Murder? The Killing of Businessmen in Fictionand Drama of the 2000s; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the "Heidegger Affair" to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwriters cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlink Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walser lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handke pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmann Nachlaß; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to "censor" contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of "text" crimes discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law and literature -- Germany
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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German literature
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Law and literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Janssen, Daniel
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Haers, Jacques
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Segaert, Barbara
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| ISBN |
9789401209496 |
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9401209499 |
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