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Author Polster, Heike, 1977-

Title The poetics of passage : Christa Wolf, time, and narrative / by Heike Polster
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (131 pages)
Contents Table of contents; abbreviations; acknowledgements; forward; chapter one -- tales of time: narrative, self, and time; chapter two -- beyond durée: christa wolf and anna seghers; chapter three -- writing out of time: temporal suspension; chapter four -- the past: stories and histories; conclusion -- towards heterochronicity; works cited
Summary Following German writer Christa Wolf's death in December 2011, the scholarly interest that her work had generated over four decades now culminates in the question of her literary and cultural legacy. Throughout her long writing career, Christa Wolf often pointed to generational differences, and asked questions about historical experiences specific to the period's contemporaries. The Poetics of Passage discusses the experience of time and history, and their representation as two of the late ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Wolf, Christa -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Wolf, Christa fast
Subject Time in literature.
History in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
History in literature
Time in literature
Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443865012
144386501X