Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Wolfgang Hilbig undoubtedly saw and staged himself as a modern author. But which concept of modernity is decisive here, and in what ways Hilbig connected himself to modernity? In contrast to a frequently claimed “GDR-Modernity”, I will concentrate on traces leading back to the discovery – or should we say: invention? – of modernist literature in the field of literary history in the old Federal Republic of Germany. This essay answers the question for modernity by focusing on Hilbig’s elf-positioning in the modernity discourse. As I want to show, this modernity discourse as a part of historiography of German literature since the 1950s marked the frame in which Hilbig's authorship developed from his first publications.
Source: Comparative studies in modernism
Author: Kasper, Norman
Institution: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6903689958
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