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Tables of Contents for German-Language Literature Today
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Editors' Note
ix
Contemporary German-language literature: The changing agenda
1
18
Stuart Parkes
Patrick Suskind's Parfum: `No one knows how well made it is'
19
12
Dieter Stolz
German identities in transition? The translation of contemporary German fiction in Britain and France
31
18
Wiebke Sievers
Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstucke: Best-selling responses to the Holocaust
49
18
J. J. Long
Gunter Grass since the Wende: German and international
67
18
Beatrice Petz
Images of Switzerland in Swiss crime fiction
85
14
Christopher Jones
W. G. Sebald: A holistic approach to borders, texts and perspectives
99
20
Arthur Williams
Michael Scharang: From Florisdorf to New York and back again
119
12
Silke Hassler
Enlightenment and entertainment - still? Uwe Timm's narrative model and his reception in the USA and in Great Britain
131
22
Helmut Peitsch
`Erzahlen ist total erotisch': Literature, pleasure and desire in novels
153
20
Thomas Brussig
Uwe Timm
Ulrich Woelk
Stefan Neuhaus
Reduction, regression, silence: A critical look beyond the category of the picaresque
173
24
Tanja Nause
How simple are Ingo Schulze's `Storys'?
197
10
Peter Graves
Whither? Away! Reflections on the motifs of travel and identity in recent east German prose
207
14
Astrid Kohler
Bridging the cultures: German contemporary Jugendliteratur
221
16
Susan Tebbutt
Staging exoticism and demystifying the exotic: German-Arab Grenzgangerliteratur
237
18
Uta Aifan
Of fables and multiculturalism: The Felidae novels of Akif Pirincci
255
14
James Jordan
`Den Amis in Hollywood ein fur allemal das Lebenslichtlein ausblasen!' Aspects of text and film in the late 1990s
269
12
Colin Riordan
Access denied. Werner Schwab, the explosion of character and the collapse of the play-within-a-play
281
14
David Barnett
German Pop Literature: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and what came after
295
14
Carsten Rohde
Select Bibliography of Secondary Works
309
4
Index
313
6
Notes on Contributors
319