Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rhetoric of Suicide in East Germany
- 1 Suicide as an Antifascist Literary Trope: 1945–71
- 2 Suicide and the Fluidity of Literary Heritage: Ulrich Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
- 3 Remembering to Death: Werner Heiduczek's Tod am Meer
- 4 Suicide and the Reevaluation of Classicism: Christa Wolf's Kein Ort. Nirgends
- 5 Suicidal Voices: Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine and Sibylle Muthesius's Flucht in die Wolken
- 6 Specters of Suicide: Christoph Hein's Horns Ende
- Conclusion: The Reality of Fictional Suicides
- Epilogue: The Literariness of East German Literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rhetoric of Suicide in East Germany
- 1 Suicide as an Antifascist Literary Trope: 1945–71
- 2 Suicide and the Fluidity of Literary Heritage: Ulrich Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
- 3 Remembering to Death: Werner Heiduczek's Tod am Meer
- 4 Suicide and the Reevaluation of Classicism: Christa Wolf's Kein Ort. Nirgends
- 5 Suicidal Voices: Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine and Sibylle Muthesius's Flucht in die Wolken
- 6 Specters of Suicide: Christoph Hein's Horns Ende
- Conclusion: The Reality of Fictional Suicides
- Epilogue: The Literariness of East German Literature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Suicide in East German LiteratureFiction, Rhetoric, and the Self-Destruction of Literary Heritage, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017