Constructing Authorship in the Work of Günter Grass
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- ISBN 9780199542703
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 144 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book traces a longstanding concern with issues of authorship throughout the work of Günter Grass, Germany's best-known contemporary writer and public intellectual. Through detailed close-readings of all of his major literary works from 1970 onwards and careful analysis of his political writings from 1965 to 2005, it argues that Grass's tendency to insert clearly recognisable self-images into his literary texts represents a coherent and calculated reaction to his constant exposure in the media-led public sphere. It underlines the degree of play which has characterised Grass's relationship to this sphere and himself as part of it and explains how a concern with the very concept of authorship has conditioned the way his work as a whole has developed on both thematic and structural levels. The major achievement of this study is to develop a new interpretative paradigm for Grass's work. It explains for the first time how his playful tendency to manipulate his own authorial image conditions all levels of his texts and is equally manifest in literary and political realms.
Rebecca Braun was educated at St Edmund Hall and New College, 0xford, She was extraordinarily granted an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2001 to begin her doctoral research on Günter Grass. She held temporary lectureships at St Edmund Hall, New College, and The University of Manchester before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at The University of Liverpool to begin new research on authors and the media in Germany from 1960 to the present.
