Research Catalog

Title

Günter Grass's use of baroque literature / Alexander Weber.

Author

Weber, Alexander

Publication

Leeds : W.S. Maney for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Modern Humanities Research Association
• University of London. Institute of Germanic Studies

Description

191 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is the first study to discuss the relation between Grass's complete works and baroque literature. Grass's employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because he takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber's argument moves from an outline of general thematic affinities in the early works to an analysis of the conscious use of baroque literature in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. He offers both a close reading of Grass and general reflections on how a past literary tradition can be adopted by a modern writer. The study focuses on the themes of vanity, carpe diem, and Scnccan Stoicism in the early works, it discusses parallels between the rhetorical structure of the courtly-historical novel and Der Butt and deals with the artist's melancholy and baroque allegories in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Texts and dissertations ; v 41
• Bithell series of dissertations, 0266-7932 ; v 20

Uniform Title

• Texts and dissertations v 41.
• Bithell series of dissertations v 20.

Subject

• Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1500-1999
• German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0901286508

LCCN

gb^95065723^

OCLC

• 932629480
• SCSB-10620727

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library