Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature
Alexander Weber
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: | MHRA Texts and Dissertations 41 Bithell Series of Dissertations 20 W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies 1 January 1995 • 198pp ISBN: 978-0-901286-50-5 (paperback) • RRP £25, $40 This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass's complete works and baroque literature. Grass's employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber's argument moves from an outline of general thematic parallels 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 Senecan Stoicism in the early works; it discusses parallels between the rhetorical structure of the courtly-historical novel and Der Butt and traces the artist's melancholy and baroque allegories in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. Bibliography entry: Weber, Alexander, Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 41 (MHRA, 1995) First footnote reference: 35 Alexander Weber, Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 41 (MHRA, 1995), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Weber, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Weber, Alexander. 1995. Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 41 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Weber 1995: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Weber 1995: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title was first published by W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies but rights to it are now held by Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. This title is now out of print. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Günter-Grasss-Use-Baroque-Literature www.mhra.org.uk/publications/td-41 |
