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Gynter Grass bald anders: taking the self out of autobiography in Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel

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Grass’s autobiographical volume Beim Häuten der Zwiebel is indebted to a range of world-literary predecessor texts, chiefly and most widely researched among them is Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Teutsch (1669). However, it will be argued here that the full import of Simplicissimus emerges only when considered in conjunction with another, rather less closely examined source text, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (1867), whose eponymous protagonist furnishes the image of the...

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10.1080/17513472.2019.1664160

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Oxford college:
Jesus College
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Publisher:
Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
Journal:
Oxford German Studies Journal website
Volume:
48
Issue:
3
Pages:
328-345
Publication date:
2019-10-28
Acceptance date:
2019-04-05
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1745-9214
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English
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uuid:0cdb7f41-9d5d-4302-97d2-49a93f3e1294
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987638
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2019-04-07

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