| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Although The tin drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework. Here is the full-length study to penetrate the brilliance of Gunter Grass's style and uncover the novel's mythopoetic core. In A mythic journey : Gunter Grass's Tin drum, author Edward Diller convincingly demonstrates the still valid relationship between modern and classical literary criticism. By reading The tin drum as both modern myth and historical epic, he provides a profound and sensitive inter. |
| Contents |
The mythology of The tin drum -- The masquerade of the great earth mother -- Mythic birth & supernatural aids -- The education & early adventures of the hero -- From timeless time to the age of iron -- Imitations of Oskar, Christ, & Satan -- Unrest & resignation in the West -- The descent to trophonios -- Travel, triumph, & despair -- A streetcar ride to folly & misfortune -- Epilegomena to a drumming dwarf -- Genealogy -- Chronology -- German-English concordance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grass, Günter, 1927-2015. Blechtrommel.
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Blechtrommel (Grass, Günter) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Diller, Edward. A Mythic Journey : Gunter Grass's Tin Drum. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813152080 |
| ISBN |
9780813162768 (electronic book) |
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0813162769 (electronic book) |
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0813152089 |
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9780813152080 |
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