The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lyn Marven, Helmut Schmitz, Gillian Pye, Heide Kunzelmann, Elizabeth Boa, Heike Bartel, Aine McMurtry, Rafaël Newman, Caroline Wiedmer, Leonhard Herrmann, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Andrew Plowman, Kate Roy, Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman, Kate Roy, Katharina Gerstenberger, Todd Herzog, Emily Spiers.
• Editors: Marven, Lyn; Plowman, Andrew; Roy, Kate
• Other Names: Schmitz, Helmut contributor.; Pye, Gillian contributor.; Kunzelmann, Heide contributor.; Boa, Elizabeth contributor.; Bartel, Heike contributor.; McMurtry, Aine contributor.; Newman, Rafaël contributor.; Wiedmer, Caroline contributor.; Herrmann, Leonhard contributor.; Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete contributor.; Marven, Lyn contributor.; Plowman, Andrew contributor.; Roy, Kate contributor.; Gerstenberger, Katharina contributor.; Herzog, Todd contributor.; Spiers, Emily contributor.
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Note on Translations; Introduction to the Contemporary Short Story in German - Andrew Plowman, Lyn Marven, and Kate Roy ; Chapter 1: Berlin Shorts: The German Capital in the Short Story of the Twenty-First Century - Katharina Gerstenberger ; Chapter 2: The German Crime Story in the Twenty-First Century - Todd Herzog ; Chapter 3: Performance, Performativity, and the Contemporary German Kurzgeschichte - Emily Spiers ; Chapter 4: Cramped Spaces, Creative Bottlenecks: Sudabeh Mohafez's das zehn-zeilen-buch and the Short-Short - Kate Roy ; Chapter 5: Bodo Kirchhoff's Widerfahrnis : A Novelle for Our Time? - Helmut Schmitz ; Chapter 6: The Liminal Space of the Short Story: Clemens Meyer's Die Nacht, die Lichter and Die stillen Trabanten - Gillian Pye ; Chapter 7: Framing the Presence: Judith Hermann's Lettipark - Leonhard Herrmann ; Chapter 8: Of Unhomed Subjects and Unsettled Voices: Alois Hotschnig's Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht - Heide Kunzelmann ; Chapter 9: Literary Development and Rewriting Spaces in the "Complete Stories": Peter Stamm's Der Lauf der Dinge - Andrew Plowman ; Chapter 10: On Disappearing: Reading Ulrike Almut Sandig with Sylvia Bovenschen - Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa ; Chapter 11: Metamorphic Becomings: Yoko Tawada's Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen - Áine McMurtry ; Chapter 12: Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001: Performance, Politics, and Poetry - Rafaël Newman and Caroline Wiedmer ; Chapter 13: Rhizomatic Wanderings: The Writings of Gabriele Petricek - Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger ; Chapter 14: Trends and Issues in the Contemporary German-Language Short Story - Lyn Marven ; Appendix: Contemporary German-Language Short Stories in Translation ; Sudabeh Mohafez, A Short-Short Selection - Translated by Kate Roy ; Roman Ehrlich, "Engineers of Time" - Translated by Lyn Marven ; Saša Stanišić, "The Factory" - Translated by Lyn Marven ; Bibliography of Primary Texts; Notes on Contributors
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Rochester : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (354 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787449886; 1787449882
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