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Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations of memory. These women writers foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel's work is a critical addition to any discussion of feminism, memory and literary modernism. ... Read more

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Alongside Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann was THE major postwar German-language poet, as well as the author of prose fiction as feminist and ahead of its time as Virginia Woolf's.Uwe Johhson was Bachmann's close friend, and in this tender commemoration Johnson mourns Bachmann's passing by accumulating information.Quoting extensively from city plans, timetables, guidebooks, newspaper articles, and history books, Johnson presents the reader with material enough to, in Heinrich Boll's words, "secure the evidence of finding out where someone comes from."By factually depicting Klagenfurt, Johnson is successful in his attempt to approach the truth of Ingeborg Bachmann. ... Read more

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Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German, her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this innovative study, Sara Lennox provides a much broader perspective on Bachmann’s work, at the same time undertaking an experiment in feminist methodology.

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Title: Ingeborg Bachmann: Complex and Compelling.(Poetry Today)(Darkness Spoken)(Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader)(The Night Begins with a Question: XXV Austrian Poems 1978-2002)(Book review)
Author: John Taylor
Publication: The Antioch Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 65Issue: 4Page: 758(8)

Article Type: Book review

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