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Irmtraud Morgner: Adventures in Knowledge, 1959-1974

Adventures in Knowledge, 1959-1974

by Geoffrey Plow (Author)
©2006 Monographs 282 Pages

Summary

This new assessment of the literary development of Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990) liberates her from a critical straitjacket that has seen her early and middle-period works as essentially constrained and thwarted by state prescriptions. The author demonstrates that Morgner always had an organically evolving literary programme of her own. He uncovers a writer with a vision of ideology and democracy as humanised, intimate and personal. Morgner’s diaries are called upon to demonstrate how she rechannelled into her later work material that had been banned by the censor. Morgner emerges as a figure whose work is deeply pertinent to our twenty-first-century preoccupations, be they in the West or East. The author advances powerful arguments for the value of six of her novels as key illustrations of her trust in the individual’s capacity to give meaning to life without recourse to established ideological structures.

Details

Pages
282
Publication Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039105496
Language
English
Keywords
Morgner, Irmtraud Geschichte 1959-1974 Narrative Trobadora Beatriz Writer-reader-communication
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2006. 282 pp.

Biographical notes

Geoffrey Plow (Author)

The Author: Geoffrey Plow teaches German, French and English at University College School, London. He has published articles on Thomas Bernhard, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch, Irmtraud Morgner and modern German film.

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