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Breaking boundaries : a new generation of poets in the GDR

Author: Karen J Leeder
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic. Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Leeder, Karen J.
Breaking boundaries.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)605339412
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen J Leeder
ISBN: 0198159102 9780198159100
OCLC Number: 32969284
Description: x, 369 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. Hineingeboren: Writers in Context. 1. Hineingeboren: A New 'Generation' of Poets in the GDR. 2. 'ich fuhle mich in grenzen wohl': The Metaphors of Boundary and the Boundaries of Metaphor --
Pt. II. Entgrenzung: Breaking Boundaries. 3. 'Leib eigen & fremd': Breaking the Bounds of the Subject. 4. 'Traumhafter Ausflug': The Dimensions of History. 5. 'wortschritt um schritt': Poetology, Language and Form --
Pt. III. Was Bleibt: Literature After the Wall. 6. 'Was bleibt': Revisions from the New Germany. 7. 'Rechnungen': Literature and Staatssicherheit --
Conclusion: 'es wird wieder landkarten geben'.
Series Title: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Responsibility: Karen Leeder.
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This book examines the controversial younger generation of poets who were 'born into' the established socialist state of the German Democratic Republic. Introducing an extraordinary decade of GDR poetry, it focuses on the ways in which this experience is translated into the metaphorical and linguistic structures of their texts, and the ways in which they set about breaking the literary and political boundaries which were imposed upon them, radicalizing notions of the subject, of history, of language, of the poetic enterprise itself. The volume also assesses what will remain - after the fall of the Wall, and the revelations of the 'Stasi' files - of this radical poetic project. This unique study examines the poetry of some fifty writers from both the official and the underground publishing scenes, offering them up as a case-study in the vexed negotiations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and as a contribution to the rewriting of German literary history after 1945.

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