New Ways in Germanistik

Richard Sheppard

'as entertaining as it is informative, as convincing as it is bound to provoke contradiction.' German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs

• From "Being-Itself" to "Post-Modernism" - four decades of literature and literary criticism in the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Kreuzer; the unacknowledged legislator of the text - some observations on literary criticism in the Federal Republic of Germany, Hans J.Hahn; towards a systematic outline of an integrative theory of literary history, Michael Titzmann; the reception of sociological theory by West German literary scholarship 1970-85, J rg Sch nert; Hans Robert Jauss's "Rezeptions sthetik" - theory and application, Margot Zutshi; a feminist approach to Kafka's "The Castle", Elizabeth Boa; women writing about women writing and Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina"; the politics of literature in the GDR - a post-structuralist approach, Chris Weedon; unholy families - the Oedipal psychopathology of four expressionist "Ich-Dramen", Richard Sheppard; deconstructing classicism - Goethe's "Helena" and the need to rhyme, Anthony Phelan; the poetry of August Stramm - a suitable case for deconstruction, Richard Sheppard; the potential and limits of a Marxist methodology for "Germanistik", David Jenkinson; from Althusser to Brecht - formalism, materialism, and "The Threepenny Opera", Steve Giles; upstairs - downstairs - some reflections on German literature in the light of Bakhtin's Theory of Carnival, Richard Sheppard.