Cityscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Literature

von Osman Durrani, Julian Preece

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Cityscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Literature – Durrani / Preece schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei beck-shop.de DIE FACHBUCHHANDLUNG

Peter Lang Bern 2004

Verlag C.H. Beck im Internet: www.beck.de ISBN 978 3 03910 065 1 Contents

Preface ...... 9

STEFAN NEUHAUS ‘Stadt–Land–Frust’: on the Metamorphoses of a Literary Dichotomy ...... 13

RUTH J OWEN ‘Germania im Bunker’: German Urban Landscapes in Contemporary Poetry...... 29

CHLOE PAVE R Down and Out in the New Germany: Urban Homelessness in Post-‘Wende’ Fiction...... 45

ROBERT GILLETT An Index and its Chronicle: Hubert Fichte’s Hamburg (Hauptbahnhof)...... 67

ALEXANDER GUMZ The Novel as the City’s Body: Georg Klein’s Libidissi...... 85

ANDREAS KRAMER ‘die unerheblichkeit berlins’: Contemporary German Poetry and the Re-Writing of Regionalism...... 107

DAVID ROCK Landscapes, Towns, and Cities from the Banat to Berlin in Richard Wagner’s Stories and Novels ...... 127

CHRISTINA UJMA All Quiet on the Italian Front? The Image of Rome in Contemporary German Prose ...... 143 6 Contents

ROBERT HALSALL Phenomenology of the Suburb: Peter Handke’s Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht ...... 159

ARTHUR WILLIAMS WG Sebald: Probing the Outer Edges of Nature ...... 179

AXEL GOODBODY Greening the City: Günter Seuren’s Satirical Account of an Urban Conservation Project in Die Krötenküsser ...... 197

SIMON MEACHER Anthropocentrism in Siegfried Lenz’s Exerzierplatz and Die Auflehnung...... 209

OWEN EVANS Living in the Past? Günter de Bruyn, Prussia, and the Mark Brandenburg...... 225

STUART PARKES Home Advantage? The Settings of Martin Walser’s Novels and the Question of Heimat...... 243

DIETER STOLZ Province as Microcosm or ‘im Kleinen das Grosse aufschreiben’: Christof Hamann’s Debut Novel Seegfrörne...... 261

JULIET WIGMORE Crime, Corruption, Capitalism: Elfriede Jelinek’s Gier ...... 277

SUSAN TEBBUTT The Politicised Pastoral Idyll in Ludwig Laher’s ‘Heimatroman’, Herzfleischentartung...... 291

GREGORY KNOTT ‘Zwischen Sehnsucht und Vergänglichkeit’: Arnold Stadler’s Concept of Heimat ...... 307

Contents 7

Notes on Contributors...... 319

Index ...... 325