Geb. 1942, Bath, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - GDR literature; Literature and exile (Lehrgebiet)

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University of Bath - Dept of Politics, Languages and International Studies - University of Bath - Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY

Besondere Forschungsgebiete GDR literature; Literature and exile

Monographien Volker Braun (1986). East Germany (1987). Berlin (1993).

Aufsätze und Beiträge The Pyramid and the Mountain: Volker Braun in the 1970's, in The GDR under Honecker: 1971-81 (ed. I. Wallace) (1981). Teacher or Partner? The Role of the Writer in the GDR (NGS, 1982), also in The Writer and Society in the GDR (ed. I. Wallace) (1984). Volker Braun's Lyric Poetry: Problems of reception, in Studies in GDR Culture and Society (ed. M. Gerber) (1983). Das Dennoch und der Triumph der Selbstbehauptung: Zivilisationskritik und Identitätssuche bei Volker Braun (Jahrbuch zur Literatur der DDR, 1983). Volker Braun's Tinka, in The Writer and Society in the GDR (ed. I. Wallace) (1984). 'Man muß es gesehen haben'. Zu Volker Brauns Die Tribüne, in Subjektivität - Innerlichkeit - Abkehr vom Politischen? (ed. K. Bullivant et al.) (1986). Hinze-Kunze-Roman, in Literatur der DDR, 1976-1986 (ed. A. Chiarloni) (1988). DDR-Forschung in Großbritannien, in Die DDR in der Ära Honecker (ed. G.-J. Glaeßner) (1988). Living with the censor in the GDR: Some Literary Strategies (New Comparison, 1989). Erich Loest (PASGAS, 1989). Deutscher Literaturstreit aus britischer Sicht (NDL, 1991). Hans Joachim Schädlich (PASGAS, 1991). Die Kulturpolitik der DDR 1971-1990, in Eine deutsche Revolution (ed. G.-J. Glaeßner) (1991). The Failure of Cultural Policy under Honecker, in The German Revolution of 1989 (ed. G.-J. Glaeßner et al.) (1992). Rolf Schneider, Joachim Walther, K.A. Wittfogel, and Rosemarie Zeplin, in Literaturlexikon (ed. W. Killy) (1991-92). The Politics of Confrontation, in Geist und Macht (ed. A.H. Goodbody) (1992). Ein Leben in der Fremde. GDR writers in the west, in Literatur und politische Aktualität (ed. F. van Ingen et al.) (1993). 'Andere Lösung Quatsch': Anna Seghers and the Film of Die Toten bleiben jung, in Aliens - Uneingebürgerte: German and Austrian Writers in Exile (ed. I. Wallace) (1994); (also GLL, 1994); German version Argonautenschiff (1996). German writers and the Stasi, in Reassessing the GDR (ed. J.H. Reid) (1994). East German Intellectuals in a Unified Germany, in The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-Five (ed. P. Merckl) (1995). (with G.D. Tate et al.) The failed socialist experiment in the GDR, in Introduction to German Cultural Studies (ed. R. Burns) (1995). Anna Seghers and the appeal of socialist realism, in In the Party Spirit. Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China (ed. H. Chung) (1996). Anna Seghers: A Reputation to be reassessed?, in Retrospect and Review (ed. R. Atkins et al.) (1997).