TY - CHAP
T1 - The power of language and silence
T2 - Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Stille
AU - Osborne, Dora
N1 - Issue values: November 2014 Abstract content copied off the jstore listing http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdm01
PY - 2014/11
Y1 - 2014/11
N2 - Reinhard Jirgl (1953–) is an emphatically German author. He insists that German is “die Sprache in der ich denke, spreche und schreibe,”¹ and the award of several prestigious prizes (including the Büchner Prize in 2010) has confirmed his place in the German literary tradition. Yet Jirgl uses the German language in consistently and characteristically iconoclastic ways to challenge the authority of historical, political, and institutional discourse. Precisely because his work went against the ideological prescriptions of the East German state, it remained unpublished in the GDR, where Jirgl lived and worked. Since unification he has become a prolific author,...
AB - Reinhard Jirgl (1953–) is an emphatically German author. He insists that German is “die Sprache in der ich denke, spreche und schreibe,”¹ and the award of several prestigious prizes (including the Büchner Prize in 2010) has confirmed his place in the German literary tradition. Yet Jirgl uses the German language in consistently and characteristically iconoclastic ways to challenge the authority of historical, political, and institutional discourse. Precisely because his work went against the ideological prescriptions of the East German state, it remained unpublished in the GDR, where Jirgl lived and worked. Since unification he has become a prolific author,...
UR - https://boydellandbrewer.com/edinburgh-german-yearbook-8-hb.html
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781571135971
T3 - Edinburgh German yearbook
SP - 159
EP - 174
BT - New literary and linguistic perspectives on the German language, National Socialism, and the Shoah
A2 - Davies , Peter
A2 - Hammel, Andrea
PB - Camden House
CY - Rochester
ER -