Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 279 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Criticism and the Literary Outsider
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 279 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-57113-206-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German writer Hans Henny Jahnn.
Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging reactions to the depictions of sado-masochistic brutality, incest, and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn's rank as a writer has long been a topic of intense debate between rival schools of critics, and his works have provoked extreme responses, both positive and negative, from a wide spectrum of scholars, writers, and critics, including such prominent figures as Alfred Döblin, Walter Benjamin, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Wolfgang Koeppen, Walter and Adolf Muschg, Wilhelm Emrich, Hubert Fichte and many others. Freeman focuses on characteristic examples ofdifferent approaches to Jahnn: structuralist, psychoanalytic, Jungian-archetypal, Marxist, biographical, literary-historical, postmodern, gay, and feminist. Freeman shows how behind the veil of objectivity, literary scholars oftenhave a hidden agenda that is based on an emotional reaction to Jahnn's portrayal of homosexuality and violence, his negative images of women, and his worldview, which some critics have linked to some of the same ideological presuppositions as those of National Socialism. This is the first full-length study of Jahnn criticism.
Thomas Freeman is associate professor of German at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
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Introduction
Journalistic Criticism: The Jahnn Controversy and the Discovery of the Misunderstood Outsider
First Scholarly Approaches
Jahnn and Myth
Structure: The Second Generation of Academics
Genre and Intertextuality
Defenders of Jahnn: Aesthetic and Modernist Interpretations
Religion
Psychology and Literature
Political Ideology and Social Criticism
Science: Biopolitics and Literature
Gay Studies and Jahnn
Feminist Approaches
The 1994 Jahnn Centennial
Conclusion
Works Consulted
Index
