Juli Zeh : A Critical Companion /
Juli Zeh : A Critical Companion /
ed. by Necia Chronister, Sonja E. Klocke, Lars Richter.
- 1 online resource (VIII, 272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Into the Juliverse -- Juli Zeh as Chronicler of the German Present -- The “Age of the Chronicler”? Literary Contemporary History in Juli Zehʼs Novels Unterleuten, Über Menschen, and Zwischen Welten -- Across the Juliverse: Blurring Textual Boundaries in the Work of Juli Zeh -- Part II: Society in/and/of Nature -- “The Between Is Her Realm”: Rebel Witches and Disorderly Nature in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti -- Juli Zeh’s Landscapes of the Capitalocene -- Human-Animal Conflict for Habitat in Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten -- Part III: Privacy, Power, and the Law -- “The Law Was a Room Justice Never Entered”: Justice, Legal Philosophy, and Law’s Foundational Violence in the Works of Juli Zeh -- Revisiting Corpus Delicti: The Author/Lawyer and the Covid-19 Pandemic -- The Prickly Character of Juli Zeh’s Der Kaktus on Campus -- Part IV: The Fault Lines of Community -- A People’s Intellectual: Juli Zeh and the Heimat Movement -- Juli Zeh and the Ethics of Care -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This volume casts a critical light on one of Germany’s bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh’s literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent years and in the wake of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Zeh’s output has only increased, though her most recent work, Unterleuten (2016), Über Menschen (2021), and Zwischen Welten (2023; co-written with Simon Urban), has evolved away from the literary and philosophical thought that informed her more nuanced earlier work and towards a more conservative representation of contemporary social dynamics. While her work continues to garner prestigious awards, Zeh herself, who is an honorary judge at the Brandenburg constitutional court and a seemingly omnipresent public intellectual, has taken increasingly libertarian positions in recent political debates -- whether about Germany’s public health measures in response to the pandemic, or the country’s role in the Ukraine war. This volume traces the development and broad impact of Zeh’s writing while reflecting on the responsibility of the scholars who read and teach it to confront her ambiguous and sometimes troubling politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783111352145 9783111352282 9783111352244
10.1515/9783111352244 doi
2024939511
Gegenwartsliteratur.
Juli Zeh.
deutsche Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
Contemporary German literature. Juli Zeh.
PT2688.E28 / Z578 2024
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Into the Juliverse -- Juli Zeh as Chronicler of the German Present -- The “Age of the Chronicler”? Literary Contemporary History in Juli Zehʼs Novels Unterleuten, Über Menschen, and Zwischen Welten -- Across the Juliverse: Blurring Textual Boundaries in the Work of Juli Zeh -- Part II: Society in/and/of Nature -- “The Between Is Her Realm”: Rebel Witches and Disorderly Nature in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti -- Juli Zeh’s Landscapes of the Capitalocene -- Human-Animal Conflict for Habitat in Juli Zeh’s Unterleuten -- Part III: Privacy, Power, and the Law -- “The Law Was a Room Justice Never Entered”: Justice, Legal Philosophy, and Law’s Foundational Violence in the Works of Juli Zeh -- Revisiting Corpus Delicti: The Author/Lawyer and the Covid-19 Pandemic -- The Prickly Character of Juli Zeh’s Der Kaktus on Campus -- Part IV: The Fault Lines of Community -- A People’s Intellectual: Juli Zeh and the Heimat Movement -- Juli Zeh and the Ethics of Care -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This volume casts a critical light on one of Germany’s bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh’s literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent years and in the wake of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Zeh’s output has only increased, though her most recent work, Unterleuten (2016), Über Menschen (2021), and Zwischen Welten (2023; co-written with Simon Urban), has evolved away from the literary and philosophical thought that informed her more nuanced earlier work and towards a more conservative representation of contemporary social dynamics. While her work continues to garner prestigious awards, Zeh herself, who is an honorary judge at the Brandenburg constitutional court and a seemingly omnipresent public intellectual, has taken increasingly libertarian positions in recent political debates -- whether about Germany’s public health measures in response to the pandemic, or the country’s role in the Ukraine war. This volume traces the development and broad impact of Zeh’s writing while reflecting on the responsibility of the scholars who read and teach it to confront her ambiguous and sometimes troubling politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783111352145 9783111352282 9783111352244
10.1515/9783111352244 doi
2024939511
Gegenwartsliteratur.
Juli Zeh.
deutsche Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
Contemporary German literature. Juli Zeh.
PT2688.E28 / Z578 2024