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Product Description Perhaps never before has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the new nation founded in 1949 as the German Democratic Republic. For forty years, educational and cultural policy played a pivotal role in efforts to build and sustain a socialist state on German soil. Party and state held teachers and writers responsible for demonstrating the superiority of socialism, infusing pupils and readers with a commitment to the emerging state, and providing persuasive role models of der neue Mensch each was challenged to become. Utilizing an innovative triangular framework, this book demonstrates how mentor-protegé(e) rubrics, traditionally associated with the socialist Bildungsroman, came to characterize text-external and text-internal relations within diverse narrative forms. Thus, leading writers such as Hermann Kant, Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann, and Christoph Hein played with the genre's patterns of transformation as they engaged with the intellectual, societal, and aesthetic dilemmas of GDR life. This book shows that understanding representations of educational transformation in GDR literature, a topic largely overlooked by critics, is central to an aesthetic appreciation of that literature more broadly. Review Accessible and chronological, Conacher's book benefits scholars and students alike. It will help the latter to contextualize East German literature within the GDR's trajectory and the concrete politics of the day; the former will find Conacher's keen analyses on how the texts react to ideology and perceptions of reality compelling. -- Evelyn Preuss ― Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature Until now literary representations of educational institutions, teachers, and educational transformation of GDR citizens had not been examined, so this volume is particularly noteworthy. It concludes with comprehensive notes and appendixes illustrating the author's theoretical framework. Scholars familiar with East German literature will appreciate this volume. -- B.W. Vetruba ― CHOICE About the Author Jean E. Conacher is Senior Lecturer in German within the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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Brand: Camden House (NY)
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ASIN: 1571139559
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 22 January 2020
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