The Communicative Event in the Works of Günter Grass: Stages of Speech, 1959-2015

by Nicole A. Thesz

A major contribution to Grass scholarship that looks at his career as a whole and identifies four phases or stages of his writing in terms of communicative strategy and style.

Nobel-laureate novelist and public intellectual G nter Grass was a towering figure among German writers and social critics from the 1950s until his death in 2015. After rising to prominence with the novel The Tin Drum (1959), he assumed the role of the conscience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139567
• ISBN13: 9781571139566
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"