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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Fehervary , Christiane Zehl Romero , Amy Kepple StrawserPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 80 Weight: 0.729kg ISBN: 9789004409620ISBN 10: 9004409629 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 21 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Note on Translations Note on Orthography Chronology of Seghers's Life and Works Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: The Seventh Cross: Origins, Relevance, Adaptations 1 Topographies of Escape, Flight, and Migration in Seghers's Prose Helen Fehervary 2 Heroes: The Seventh Cross and Seghers's Heldenbuch Christiane Zehl Romero 3 Allusions to the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish-Christian Gospel and Apostolic Narratives in The Seventh Cross Helen Fehervary 4 The Seventh Cross: Dignite humaine and Human Rights Birgit Maier-Katkin 5 The Seventh Crossand Fred Zinnemann's Cinematic Adaptation Peter Beicken 6 Expressionism in Pictures: Exploring William Sharp's Comic Adaptation of The Seventh Cross Kristy Boney Part 2: From the Historical Avant-Garde to Socialism and Antifascism 7 Netty Reiling's Student Years at the University of Heidelberg Christiane Zehl Romero 8 Die Gefahrten: Poised Aesthetically between Modernism and Lukacsian Socialist Realism and Politically between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin Katerina Clark 9 Narrative Approaches to the Holocaust: A Pivotal Decade in Seghers's Oeuvre Helen Fehervary 10 The French Connection: Seghers's Friendships and Work Relationships in and with France Christiane Zehl Romero 11 Seghers's Efforts to Write about Postwar Germany Ute Brandes 12 Anna Seghers, Walter Janka, Wolfgang Harich, and the Events of Stephen Brockmann Part 3: Seghers and her Contemporaries 13 Visual Encounters: Seghers, Kafka, and Benjamin Peter Beicken 14 Notes on Seghers and Adorno: Marxism, Post-Fascism, and the Question of Culture Hunter Bivens 15 Die herrliche Anna Seghers : Her Role for Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann Christiane Zehl Romero 16 ... diese unertragliche Sehnsucht : Life Journeys and Longing in Reimann, Seghers, and Wolf Jennifer Marston William 17 Heiner Muller's Three Confessions: Late Letters to His Father, His Grandfather, and His Literary Mother Anna Seghers Janine Ludwig Part 4: Seghers in Translation 18 Introduction to The Wayfarers: Chapter One Hunter Bivens 19 Introduction to Shelter Helen Fehervary 20 Introduction to The Reed Amy Kepple Strawser IndexReviewsThis is an excellent introduction to and scholarly appraisal of one of the 20th century's most important women writers. - E.G. Wickersham, Rosemont College USA, in CHOICE Vol. 57.11 2020 Author InformationHelen Fehervary, Professor Emerita/Academy Professor of German Studies, Ohio State University, has published widely on German literature, theatre, and intellectual history, is author of Anna Seghers: The Mythic Dimension, and editor of the text-critical Anna Seghers Werkausgabe published by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin. Christiane Zehl Romero, Professor Emerita of German, International Literary/Cultural Studies, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric, Tufts University, has authored articles on German and comparative literature, a two-volume biography of Seghers, and coedited two volumes of her letters in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe. Amy Kepple Strawser, Lecturer, Ohio State University, has published on German poetry and women writers. She translated Ursula Krechel's Voices from the Bitter Core (2010) and with Helen Fehervary tales by Seghers including The Excursion of the Dead Girls (2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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