Writing on the Loose: Reading Florian Illies’s “Generation Golf”, Maurice G. Dantec’s “Périphériques”, Joschka Fischer’s “Mein langer Lauf zu mir ... Publikatio - Taschenbuch

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Herausgeber: Weidler Buchverlag Berlin

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Autor/in: Angela Kölling
Titel: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; Writing on the Loose - Reading Florian Illies’s “Generation Golf”, Maurice G. Dantec’s “Périphériques”, Joschka Fischer’s “Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst”, and Frédéric Beigbeder’s “Windows on the World” as examples of creative nonfiction
Verlag: Weidler Buchverlag Berlin
248 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012-02-10
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Deutschland.
Sprache: Englisch
39,00 € (DE)
40,10 € (AT)
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BA; KART; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Deutschsprachige Literaturwissenschaft; Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft; Verstehen; Frédéric Beigbeder; Maurice G. Dantec; Florian Illies; Joschka Fischer

Introduction Bewildering Years: Why Study Creative Nonfiction? Structure and Contents Notes on Primary Materials, Secondary Sources and Translation Chapter 1: Towards Defining an Amorphous Genre 1.1 Origins: The Emergence of Creative Nonfiction in a Time of Civil Disobedience 1.2 From Moment to Movement: Creative Nonfiction after the 1960s 1.3 What Makes Creative Nonfiction (Creative Nonfiction)? 1.3.1 “Like a Novel”: The Literary Elements that Make Creative Nonfiction 1.3.2 The ‘Big Five’ of Creative Nonfiction: A Comparison of Definitions 1.3.3 ‘The Private’ and ‘the Public’ in Creative Nonfiction: Trends 1.4 Problems of Defining an Amorphous Genre: A Possibility of Transfer Chapter 2: The Magpie’s Song: a Working Definition of Creative Nonfiction in Seven Dynamics 2.1 A Remix of Sorts 2.1.1 Fact-Fiction Dynamic 2.1.2 Writer-Reader Dynamic 2.1.3 Sympathy-Antipathy Dynamic 2.1.4 Good-and-Bad Dynamic 2.1.5 Life-Art Dynamic 2.1.6 Writing-and-Righting Dynamic 2.1.7 Self-Other Dynamic 2.2 An Invitation to Four Conversations Chapter 3: Florian Illies’s Generation Golf: Literary Journalism or Pop-literature? 3.1 Problems of Pop and Pop-literature 3.2 Documentary and Literary Elements: How the Fact-Fiction Dynamic in Illies’s Writing Connects Generation Golf to the Generation Debate and Douglas Coupland’s Works 3.2.1 Generation X, Generation Golf and Shampoo Planet 3.2.2 Rebellion against Form: the Playmobil Biography 3.2.3 “A Sign-World that Reaches into the Everyday” (mix of High and Low Culture Elements) 3.3 Autonomy and Interdependence in Generation Golf – Reflections on the Contract, the Empathy and the Critical Perspective the Author Establishes by Literary Means in the Text 3.3.1 Illies’s Contract with the Reader 3.3.2 Cynical Affirmations 3.3.3 Ironic Refraction 3.4 The Incessant Repetition of the Ever-Same and the Ever-New: the Timely and Timeless in Generation Golf 3.4.1 Die Vorgängergeneration (The Preceding Generation) 3.4.2 “It Keeps Running and Running and Running” 3.5 The Origins and Spread of Generation Golf 3.6 Imagining Generation Golf: Branding Identity Chapter 4: Other Voices in Maurice G. Dantec’s Périphériques: Creative Nonfiction and the Public Intellectual 4.1 The Fiction, the Author and the World 4.2 Other Voices: the Editor 4.2.1 The Preface 4.2.2 The Interview 4.2.3 The Structure 4.3 Fact and Fiction – One Dynamic Network of Texts 4.4 Evolution by Literary Means: the Bibliothekon 4.5 The Fiction of the Writer – Effects on Identity 4.6 Creative Nonfiction with a False Bottom: the Origin and Spread of Paradoxical Authorship (A Comparison) Chapter 5: Self-exposure and Self-maintenance in Joschka Fischer’s Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst (My long run to myself) 5.1 Fischer’s “langer Lauf” 5.2 What Kind of Story? 5.3 The Fictional Credibility of Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst 5.3.1 Fischer’s Clashes with Society: a Win-win Situation between the Politician and the Media 5.3.2 Fischer’s Self-reflections and the Imagination of Human Agency 5.4 Public Confessions as a Way of Shaping Identity – “on and by the media” 5.5 The Door to a Room of One’s Own: Creative Nonfiction, Autobiography and Late Modern Politics Chapter 6: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World: A Historical Novel 6.1 Writing after 9/11: Reviews of Windows on the World 6.2 The Novelist as Historian 6.2.1 The Novel Form 6.2.2 Criticising Other Media 6.2.3 The Ambiguous Protagonist 6.2.4 The Point of View 6.2.5 The Use of Time 6.2.6 The House of Mirrors 6.2.7 The Collective Novel 6.2.8 The Observer’s Archimedean Point 6.3 Catcher in the Windows: a Similar But Different Approach to History as a Novel Chapter 7: Conclusion 7.1 Why Study Creative Nonfiction in Germany and France? References Acknowledgements