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Helen Fehervary - Anna Seghers, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Anna Seghers

The Challenge of History

Av Helen Fehervary

Del 80 i serien German Monitor

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Beskrivning
Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address facets of Seghers’s large body of work which is characterized by reflections on political events shaping world history and written in a highly imaginative array of narrative styles. The first section focuses on the author’s famous novel The Seventh Cross. Articles in the next two sections analyze her reactions to crises that marked the twentieth century and her connections to other relevant thinkers of her time. The last section features new translations of Seghers’s works.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-11-21
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 729 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: German Monitor
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004409620
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Helen Fehervary, Professor Emerita/Academy Professor of German Studies, Ohio State University, has published widely on German literature, theatre, and intellectual history, is author of Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension, and editor of the text-critical Anna Seghers Werkausgabe published by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor Emerita of German, International Literary/Cultural Studies, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric, Tufts University, has authored articles on German and comparative literature, a two-volume biography of Seghers, and coedited two volumes of her letters in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe.Amy Kepple Strawser, Lecturer, Ohio State University, has published on German poetry and women writers. She translated Ursula Krechel’s Voices from the Bitter Core (2010) and with Helen Fehervary tales by Seghers including “The Excursion of the Dead Girls” (2017).

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“This is an excellent introduction to and scholarly appraisal of one of the 20th century’s most important women writers.”-E.G. Wickersham, Rosemont College USA, in CHOICE Vol. 57.11 2020

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