Revolting families : toxic intimacy, private politics, and literary realisms in the German sixties / Carrie Smith-Prei.

  • Smith, Carrie, 1975-
Date:
2013
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Description

Revolting Families thus extends the concept of negativity, which has long been part of post-war German philosophical and aesthetic theory, to the body in German literature and culture. Through an analysis of these texts and of contextual discourse, Smith-Prei develops a theoretical concept of corporeal negativity that works to provoke socio-political engagement with the private sphere."--pub. desc.

Publication/Creation

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Physical description

x, 204 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction : on realism, negativity, and intimacy -- Trauma, neurosis, and the postwar family : Dieter Wellershoff's politics of reading -- Repression, disgust, and adolescent memories : Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's ethics of textual freedom -- Consumption, vertigo, and childhood visions : Gisela Elsner's grotesque repetitions as resistance -- Discipline, love, and authoritative child-rearing : Renate Rasp's satire as pedagogical tool.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    UR.U.37.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781442646377
  • 1442646373