Literature, Markets and Media in Germany and Austria Today

Contents: Stuart Parkes: Introduction: German Authors on the Media - Ralf Schnell: Art, Intellect and Power - Helmut Peitsch: 'Wer so fernsehtrunken wie ich vorm Glaskasten sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen': Peter Rühmkorf's Tabu I. Tagebücher 1989-1991 - Matthias Uecker: Marketing the Self: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's rhetorical strategies - Chloe E M Paver: Jesus in the Market Place: Ethical capitalism in Günter Grass's Unkenruf e - Doris Moser: Authors, Shares and Analyses: The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize as a market for symbolic capital - Laura Ovenden: Writing in the Margin: Elisabeth Reichart's 'Auseinandersetzung mit Tabubereichen oder mit Verschwiegenem' - David Rock: Jurek Becker as TV Scriptwriter: A former Communist engages with market forces? - Rob Burns: Between Market Assimilation and Cultural Resistance: The migrant writer in the work of Alev Tekinay - Robert Gillett/Astrid Köhler: Manipulating the Medium: Maxie Wander's Guten Morgen, du Schöne and the concept of 'Protokolliteratur' in East and West - Stefan Neuhaus: Modern Inquisition or Democratic Counterweight? The power of the media and the four Christa Wolf 'affairs' - Andrew Plowman: Subject to the Media: The mass media and the autobiographical act in texts by 'Bommi' Baumann, Jürgen Becker and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Robert Halsall: Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara : An aestheticization of the Holocaust? - Helmut Schmitz: German Unification as Pornographic Nightmare: Thomas Hettche's Nox - Dieter Stolz: Literature, Market, Media or Mimesis and Simulation: Robert Menasse's four-volume Trilogie der Entgeisterung - Axel Schalk: The End of Mimesis: Observations on the theatre of the 1990s - Arthur Williams: Botho Strauß's Defence of the Book against 'Medienwirtschaft' and 'downloadbare Vergangenheit' - Martin Hielscher: The Return to Narrative and to History: Some thoughts on contemporary German-language literature.

The Editors: Arthur Williams is Professor of Contemporary German Studies at the University of Bradford.
Stuart Parkes is Professor of Contemporary German Studies at the University of Sunderland.
Julian Preece is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
They have edited two previous volumes in this series: 'Whose Story?' - Continuities in contemporary German-language literature (1998) and Contemporary Writers, their Aesthetics and their Language (1996). Williams and Parkes edited The Individual, Identity and Innovation: Signals from contemporary literature and the new Germany (1994) and, together with Roland Smith, two earlier volumes: German Literature at a Time of Change (1991) and Literature on the Threshold (1990).