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Suicide in East German Literature: Fiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 183) by Professor Robert Blankenship is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR and the literariness of its literature. The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literat
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- Author
- Professor Robert Blankenship
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781787440593
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Psychology
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