The Writer's Morality (English, German, Paperback)

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. 1 ill. The contributions to this volume have been commissioned in honour of Michael Butler, Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Birmingham, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Professor Butler has distinguished himself as an editor, interpreter and critic of post war German literature, most particularly in the area of German-Swiss writing. His three monographs on Max Frisch and the edited volumes Rejection and Emancipation. Writing in German-speaking Switzerland 1945-91, The Making of Modern Switzerland 1848-1995, and The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Boll. Social Conscience and Narrative Achievement, all share the same concern with the moral dimension of imaginative literature, a focus which also unites the contributions to this celebratory volume. Michael Butler's signal contributions to German Studies have earned him a LittD from the University of Cambridge, the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Presidency from 1995 to 1998 of the Conference of University Teachers of German. Contents: Kurt Marti: Poesie ist Moral: Fast ein Manifest - um Michael Butler zu gruen - Malcolm Pender: 'Das Vorhandensein einer andem Welt': Max Frisch, the Second World War and morality in German-Swiss writing - Elsbeth Pulver: 'Schreiben ist eine Anmaung, vielleicht': Zu den Romanen von Gerhard Meier - Mary Stewart: 'Zum Zusehen verdammt': The ethics of narration in three novels by Margrit Schriber - Herbert Meier: Physiker bellen nicht - Martin Swales: From Goldach to Gullen - Wolfgang Muller-Funk: Die furchterliche Pflicht zur Freiheit: Uberlegungen zu Hermann Brochs Meta-Politik - HeinzLudwig Arnold: Der subversive Chronist: Uber Hans Joachim Schadlich - Maja Beutler: Theater und Moral als postmodernes Gespann - Paul Cooke: Countering 'Realitatsverlust': Wolfgang Hilbig and the 'postmodern condition' - Wilfried van der Will: Die Unausweichlichkeit der Provokation: Kultur-und literaturtheoretische Anmerkungen zu Martin Walsers Ein springender Brunnen und zu seiner Friedenspreisrede - Karl S. Guthke: 'Lying like an epitaph'? Cultural history in the cemetery - E.Y. Meyer: Gedichte - Ronald Speirs: Postscript.