Cityscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Literature von Osman Durrani, Julian Preece 1. Auflage 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 .