{"product_id":"anna-seghers-the-challenge-of-history-9789004409620","title":"Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address facets of Seghers’s large body of work which is characterized by reflections on political events shaping world history and written in a highly imaginative array of narrative styles. The first section focuses on the author’s famous novel The Seventh Cross. Articles in the next two sections analyze her reactions to crises that marked the twentieth century and her connections to other relevant thinkers of her time. The last section features new translations of Seghers’s works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an excellent introduction to and scholarly appraisal of one of the 20th century’s most important women writers.”   -\tE.G. Wickersham, Rosemont College USA, in CHOICE Vol. 57.11 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Note on Translations  Note on Orthography  Chronology of Seghers’s Life and Works  Notes on Contributors  Introduction      Part 1: The Seventh Cross: Origins, Relevance, Adaptations   1 Topographies of Escape, Flight, and Migration in Seghers’s Prose   Helen Fehervary   2 Heroes: The Seventh Cross and Seghers’s “Heldenbuch”   Christiane Zehl Romero   3 Allusions to the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish-Christian Gospel and Apostolic Narratives in The Seventh Cross   Helen Fehervary   4  The Seventh Cross: Dignité humaine and Human Rights   Birgit Maier-Katkin   5  The Seventh Crossand Fred Zinnemann’s Cinematic Adaptation   Peter Beicken   6 Expressionism in Pictures: Exploring William Sharp’s Comic Adaptation of The Seventh Cross   Kristy Boney      Part 2: From the Historical Avant-Garde to Socialism and Antifascism   7 Netty Reiling’s Student Years at the University of Heidelberg   Christiane Zehl Romero   8 Die Gefährten: Poised Aesthetically between Modernism and Lukácsian Socialist Realism and Politically between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin   Katerina Clark   9 Narrative Approaches to the Holocaust: A Pivotal Decade in Seghers’s Oeuvre   Helen Fehervary   10 The French Connection: Seghers’s Friendships and Work Relationships in and with France   Christiane Zehl Romero   11 Seghers’s Efforts to Write about Postwar Germany   Ute Brandes   12 Anna Seghers, Walter Janka, Wolfgang Harich, and the Events of   Stephen Brockmann      Part 3: Seghers and her Contemporaries   13 Visual Encounters: Seghers, Kafka, and Benjamin   Peter Beicken   14 Notes on Seghers and Adorno: Marxism, Post-Fascism, and the Question of Culture   Hunter Bivens   15 “Die herrliche Anna Seghers”: Her Role for Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann   Christiane Zehl Romero   16 “… diese unerträgliche Sehnsucht”: Life Journeys and Longing in Reimann, Seghers, and Wolf   Jennifer Marston William   17 Heiner Müller’s Three Confessions: Late Letters to His Father, His Grandfather, and His Literary Mother Anna Seghers   Janine Ludwig      Part 4: Seghers in Translation   18 Introduction to The Wayfarers: Chapter One   Hunter Bivens   19 Introduction to “Shelter”   Helen Fehervary   20 Introduction to “The Reed”   Amy Kepple Strawser  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781876567,"sku":"9789004409620","price":126.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anna-seghers-the-challenge-of-history-9789004409620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}