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Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford
This study focuses on the five most prominent Swiss writers of the last thirty-five years whose work features ecological crisis. It is an analysis of five narratologically divergent styles, ranging from the eco-parables of Franz Hohler to the...
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This study focuses on the five most prominent Swiss writers of the last thirty-five years whose work features ecological crisis. It is an analysis of five narratologically divergent styles, ranging from the eco-parables of Franz Hohler to the hermeneutically defiant work of Gertrud Leutenegger. Between these poles, the author also explores works by Walther Kauer, Max Frisch and Beat Sterchi. Previously unpublished material from interviews with three of the authors is included. These writers are not only the most widely read and respected ecologically committed authors in Switzerland but also p
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Contents; Chapter 1 - Introduction -1; 1.1 Literature and Ecology -6; 1.2 The Ecological Voice -26; Chapter 2 - Franz Hohler's Eco-Parables -35; 2.1 Franz Hohler's 'kurze Geschichten' and 'Kurzgeschichten' -44; 2.2 Der neue Berg -62; 2.3 Die Steinflut -78; Chapter 3 - Walther Kauer's Spätholz: Capitalism, Fascism and Subsistence Farming -91; Chapter 4 - Max Frisch's Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän: Ecological Eschatology -113; 4.1 Max Frisch and Ecology -113; 4.2 Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän -116; Chapter 5 - Beat Sterchi's Blösch: A Bovine Plea for Biocentrism -133; 5.1 The Farm -134