A critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
Brigid Haines, Reader in German, Swansea University;Lyn Marven, Lecturer in German, University of Liverpool
1 Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven: Introduction; 2 Katrin Kohl: Beyond Realism:Herta Muller's Poetics; 3 Alex Drace-Francis: Beyond the Land of Green Plums: Romanian culture and language in Herta Muller's work; 4 Valentina Glajar: The Presence of the Unresolved Recent Past: Herta Muller and the Securitate; 5 Moray McGowan: 'Stadt und Schadel', 'Reisende' and 'Verlorene': city, self and survival in Herta Muller's Reisende auf einem Bein; 6 Beverly Eddy: A Mutilated Fox Fur: Examining the Contexts of Imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jager; 7 Norbert Otto Eke: 'Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mir, macht nichts': Herta Muller's Romanian Novels; 8 Brigid Haines: Return from the Archipelago: Herta Muller's Atemschaukel as soft memory; 9 Lyn Marven: 'So fremd war das Gebilde': The Interaction between Visual and Verbal in Herta Muller's Prose and Collages; 10 Karin Bauer: Gender and the Sexual Politics of Exchange in Herta Muller's Prose; 11 Wiebke Sievers: Eastward bound: Herta Muller's international reception; 12 Jean Boase-Beier: Herta Muller in Translation; 13 Lyn Marven: Life and Literature: Autobiography, Referentiality and Intertextuality in Herta Muller's Work; 14 Rebecca Braun: Famously Literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta Muller's Authorial Body
Show moreA critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.
Brigid Haines, Reader in German, Swansea University;Lyn Marven, Lecturer in German, University of Liverpool
1 Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven: Introduction; 2 Katrin Kohl: Beyond Realism:Herta Muller's Poetics; 3 Alex Drace-Francis: Beyond the Land of Green Plums: Romanian culture and language in Herta Muller's work; 4 Valentina Glajar: The Presence of the Unresolved Recent Past: Herta Muller and the Securitate; 5 Moray McGowan: 'Stadt und Schadel', 'Reisende' and 'Verlorene': city, self and survival in Herta Muller's Reisende auf einem Bein; 6 Beverly Eddy: A Mutilated Fox Fur: Examining the Contexts of Imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jager; 7 Norbert Otto Eke: 'Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mir, macht nichts': Herta Muller's Romanian Novels; 8 Brigid Haines: Return from the Archipelago: Herta Muller's Atemschaukel as soft memory; 9 Lyn Marven: 'So fremd war das Gebilde': The Interaction between Visual and Verbal in Herta Muller's Prose and Collages; 10 Karin Bauer: Gender and the Sexual Politics of Exchange in Herta Muller's Prose; 11 Wiebke Sievers: Eastward bound: Herta Muller's international reception; 12 Jean Boase-Beier: Herta Muller in Translation; 13 Lyn Marven: Life and Literature: Autobiography, Referentiality and Intertextuality in Herta Muller's Work; 14 Rebecca Braun: Famously Literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta Muller's Authorial Body
Show more1: Brigid Haines and Lyn Marven: Introduction
2: Katrin Kohl: Beyond Realism:Herta Müller's Poetics
3: Alex Drace-Francis: Beyond the Land of Green Plums: Romanian
culture and language in Herta Müller's work
4: Valentina Glajar: The Presence of the Unresolved Recent Past:
Herta Müller and the Securitate
5: Moray McGowan: 'Stadt und Schädel', 'Reisende' and 'Verlorene':
city, self and survival in Herta Müller's Reisende auf einem
Bein
6: Beverly Eddy: A Mutilated Fox Fur: Examining the Contexts of
Imagery in Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger
7: Norbert Otto Eke: 'Macht nichts, macht nichts, sagte ich mir,
macht nichts': Herta Müller's Romanian Novels
8: Brigid Haines: Return from the Archipelago: Herta Müller's
Atemschaukel as soft memory
9: Lyn Marven: 'So fremd war das Gebilde': The Interaction between
Visual and Verbal in Herta Müller's Prose and Collages
10: Karin Bauer: Gender and the Sexual Politics of Exchange in
Herta Müller's Prose
11: Wiebke Sievers: Eastward bound: Herta Müller's international
reception
12: Jean Boase-Beier: Herta Müller in Translation
13: Lyn Marven: Life and Literature: Autobiography, Referentiality
and Intertextuality in Herta Müller's Work
14: Rebecca Braun: Famously Literary? The Nobel Prize and Herta
Müller's Authorial Body
Brigid Haines is Reader in German at Swansea University. Her
research focuses on gender and culture, and the 'eastern turn' in
contemporary German literature. She is the author (with Margaret
Littler) of Contemporary German Women's Writing: Changing the
Subject, and of Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of
Adalbert Stifter, and has edited books on Herta Müller and (with
Lyn Marven) Libuse Moníková.
; Lyn Marven is Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool.
Her research focuses particularly on contemporary literature, and
she is the author of Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures
in German: Herta Müller, Libuse Moníková and Kerstin Hensel; she
has also edited volumes on Libuse Moníková (with Brigid Haines),
Cultural Impact (with Rebecca Braun) and Emerging Novelists (with
Stuart Taberner).
In their concise introduction, Haines and Marven provide an
excellent overview of Miller's biographical background and key
themes. In totality, the volume, which includes an extensive
bibliography and index, offers a first-rate, highly informative,
and extensively contextualized account of Miller's oeuvre
*M. Shafi, University of Delaware, CHOICE*
excellent contribution to the study of an important contemporary
author.
*David Midgley, Modern Language Review*
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