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Günter Grass and World Literature / Günter Grass und seine Weltliteratur, special edition of Oxford German Studies, edited with Nicole Thesz

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Oxford German Studies, Volume: 48:3

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This special issue of Oxford German Studies is the product of a conference on the same topic held at Swansea University in September 2017 to mark what would have been Grass’s ninetieth birthday the following month (on 16 October) and the publication by Steidl of the final volumes of Kommentare und M...

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Published in: Oxford German Studies
Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51270
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Abstract: This special issue of Oxford German Studies is the product of a conference on the same topic held at Swansea University in September 2017 to mark what would have been Grass’s ninetieth birthday the following month (on 16 October) and the publication by Steidl of the final volumes of Kommentare und Materialien.Table of ContentsGünter Grass and International Literature (Julian Preece and Nicole Thesz)Grass’s Die Blechtrommel and Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel: Translating the Picaresque into a German Context after 1945 (Peter Arnds)Gynter Grass bald anders: Taking the Self out of Autobiography in Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Kirstin Gwyer)Return of the Picaresque: Günter Grass’s Self-positioning with Regard to World Literature and its Effect on his International Reception (Christoph Parry)Günter Grass, Katz und Maus und der chinesische Sittenroman Jin Ping Mei: Ein Fall von sexualästhetischen Wahlverwandschaften? (Yanhui Wang)‘Auch über Damrokka wüßte ich gerne ein wenig mehr.’ Günter Grass’ Dialoge mit der kaschubischen Literatur (Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk)Jean-Paul Sartre’s Réflexions sur la question juive (1946) as Blueprint for Grass’s Jewish Figures: From Hundejahre (1963) to Im Krebsgang (2002) (Julian Preece)The Existentialist Legacy: Sisyphean Struggles in Albert Camus’ La Peste and Günter Grass’s Die Rättin (Nicole Thesz)Arbeiten mit Günter Grass (Hans Altenhein)
Keywords: German literary relations and reception, translation