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Christoph Hein's Horns Ende. Historical Revisionism: A Process Of Renewal, Heinz Bulmahn

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In light of recent developments, the historical record of the German Democratic Republic will be closely reexamined as the two Germanies merge into one country. Christoph Hein's novel Horns Ende undoubtedly will play a role in the debate about the GDR past, because it is a clear repudiation of official historical mythmaking. The novel examines in detail the political and social fiber of a small town in the GDR during the fifties. Horn returns to the town some thirty years after his death, and entices the townspeople to recount their lives during the early years of the socialist republic. These …

Review Essays, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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The Modernist Novel in Spain. Transparent Simulacra: Spanish Fiction 1902-1906, by Robert Spires. Roberta Johnson

Staging the End of Individualism: Sloterdijk's Postmetaphysical Dramaturgy. Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism, by Peter Sloterdijk. Alan D. Schrift

Reviews Of Recent Publications, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, by John Barberet

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Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions, by Rosemarie Scullion

Wolfgang Iser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology, by Jane Riles Thomas

Colin Davis, Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction, by Marja Warehine

Didier Coste, Narrative as Communication, by Armine Kotin Mortimer

Jean-Jacques Thomas, La Langue, la poésie. Essais sur la poésie française contemporaine, …