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September 1984L'Etat c'est moi
by Herbert Achternbusch
Derjenige, von dem der Ausspruch stammt, der diesem Buch den Titel gab, kommt im Text nicht vor; auch kein vergleichbarer. Im Gegenteil: Die Rede ist von Dialogpartnern, die alle von ihrer Umwelt, ihrer Vergangenheit, ihren Hoffnungen und Wünschen berichten, weniger um sich gegenseitig zu verständigen, als vielmehr um die Situationen, in denen sie leben müssen, zu verdeutlichen. In dieser Rollenprosa wird bewußt keine Rücksicht auf die Erfordernisse der traditionellen Erzählung genommen. Realistische Details aus dem politischen Tagesgeschehen stehen neben der Geschichte des Mönchs Absalom; Drehbuchtexte sind in monologisch gehaltenen Passagen eingebettet. »L᾿Etat c᾿est moi« – das ist mehr als nur ein ironisches Zitat: Es ist eine Provokation derjenigen, die durch die Institutionen (der literarischen Gattungen ebenso wie der sozialen Ordnungen) Zwang ausüben; und es in einer Aufforderung an den Leser, das überkommene Denken, der Staat sind wir (also die anderen), in Frage zu stellen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2018David and Bathsheba
By George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin, David Bevington
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2022David and Bathsheba
George Peele
by Mathew R. Martin
David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume edition of the play since 1912 and opens up this unduly neglected gem of English Renaissance drama to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the play's treatment of its biblical and poetic sources, its engagement with Elizabethan politics, and its forceful representations of religious fanaticism, genocide, and sexual violence. Its commentary notes clarify the text's meaning and staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of the turbulent Davidic period of Ancient Israel's history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. Martin's edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Peele's powerful and disturbing drama.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersScars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
by Craig A. Waren (author)
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate would place the total number of Civil War novels at well over one thousand, and this figure does not account for the thousands of war-related stories published in journals, newspapers, and magazines since 1861.”—from the IntroductionThis examination of the interaction between fictional representations of the Civil War and the memoirs and autobiographies of Civil War soldiers argues that veterans’ accounts taught later generations to represent the conflict in terms of individual experiences, revealing how national identity developed according to written records of the past.Author Craig A. Warren explores seven popular novels about the Civil War—The Red Badge of Courage, Gone with the Wind, None Shall Look Back, The Judas Field, The Unvanquished, The Killer Angels, and Absalom, Absalom! His study reveals that the war owes much of its cultural power to a large but overlooked genre of writing: postwar memoirs, regimental histories, and other narratives authored by Union and Confederate veterans. Warren contends that literary scholars and historians took seriously the influence that veterans’ narratives had on the shape and character of Civil War fiction.Scars to Prove It fills a gap in the study of Civil War literature and will appeal to those interested in the literature, military writing, and literary studies related to the Civil War.
