| A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin Contributor(s): Krueger, Roberta L. (Editor), Dollinger, Roland (Editor), Koepke, Wulf (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571134603 ISBN-13: 9781571134608 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 833.912 |
| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Günter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed therest of Döblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Döblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio. Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Müller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Düsing. Roland Dollinger is Associate Professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is Professor Emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German at Oberlin College. |
Contributor Bio(s): Koepke, Wulf: - Recently retired as Distinguished Professor of German, Texas A and M University.Tewarson, Heidi Thomann: - Heidi Thomann Tewarson is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German Language and Literature at Oberlin College.Dollenmayer, Roland: - Roland Dollinger is Associate Professor of German Language and Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. |