Crisis and form in the later writing of Ingeborg Bachmann
Subtitle: an aesthetic examination of the poetic drafts of the 1960s
By: by Áine McMurtry
Series: Texts and dissertations / Modern Humanities Research and Association -- v. 84; Bithell series of dissertations / Institute of Germanic and Romance studies (University of London) -- v. 39.; Texts and dissertations -- v. 84.; Bithell series of dissertations -- v. 39.
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781907322396; 9781907322976
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Austrian Authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index.

Includes some text in German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Writing in the 1960s ; Ich weiss keine bessere Welt ; Letzte, unveröffentlichte Gedichte, Entwürfe und Fassungen ; 'Todesarten'-poems ; Critical resposne ; Experimental aesthetics; title: Writing in the 1960s: The calamity of speechlessness ; Writing and experience ; Writing the body ; 'Todesarten'-Projekt ; The body as site; title: The case of the Berlin writings: West Berlin ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; The shock of the city: Benjamin and Baudelaire ; The Büchner Prize context ; 'Das Dokument einer Krise' ; Georg Groddeck and 'das Es' ; The symptomatic scene of Berlin: Ein Ort für Zufälle; title: 'Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk": the appeal to Gaspara Stampa: The early love lyrics ; Gaspara Stampa ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; Reading Malina through Barthes: Fragments d'un discours amoureux ; The figure of 'Schwester Eleonore' ; Narrative solutions: 'Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk'; title: Tristan and the composition of a reflexive aesthetic: The Wagnerian intertext ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; The Tristan dreams in Malina ; In the opera house: Adorno on mass-culture ; Voicing trauma: Adorno on Schönberg ; Reflexive aesthetics: 'Meine Tagrätsel sind grösser als meine Traumrätsel'; title: Conclusion.