TY - BOOK
T1 - Crisis and Form in the Later Writing of Ingeborg Bachmann
T2 - an Aesthetic Examination of the Poetic Drafts of the 1960s
AU - McMurtry, Aine
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Ingeborg Bachmann (1927-73), one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the post-1945 period, famously turned away from the lyric during the 1960s. Publically declaring that she had stopped writing poetry, Bachmann began work on the prose Todesarten cycle that would dominate the last decade of her life. During a period of breakdown in the 1960s, however, she privately continued to write in verse, and the publication of selected drafts in 2000 threw new light on her compositional methods in these years. As the most extensive study to date of the poetic drafts, this monograph leads away from the polemic that surrounded their publication to establish the fragmentary texts as an experimental stage of writing that proved formally and thematically significant for later published prose works. Bridging the genre gap of much Bachmann scholarshipm McMurtry illuminates the development of a reflexive mode where sophisticated aesthetic strategies enable the oblique expression of cultural critique.
AB - Ingeborg Bachmann (1927-73), one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the post-1945 period, famously turned away from the lyric during the 1960s. Publically declaring that she had stopped writing poetry, Bachmann began work on the prose Todesarten cycle that would dominate the last decade of her life. During a period of breakdown in the 1960s, however, she privately continued to write in verse, and the publication of selected drafts in 2000 threw new light on her compositional methods in these years. As the most extensive study to date of the poetic drafts, this monograph leads away from the polemic that surrounded their publication to establish the fragmentary texts as an experimental stage of writing that proved formally and thematically significant for later published prose works. Bridging the genre gap of much Bachmann scholarshipm McMurtry illuminates the development of a reflexive mode where sophisticated aesthetic strategies enable the oblique expression of cultural critique.
KW - Crisis Poetry Prose Form Ingeborg Bachmann post-war poetry
M3 - Book
SN - 9781907322396
VL - 84
T3 - Texts & Dissertations
BT - Crisis and Form in the Later Writing of Ingeborg Bachmann
PB - Modern Humanities Research Association
CY - London
ER -