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Survival in Simplicissimus and Mutter Courage / Cara M. Horwich
Publisher: New York : P. Lang, 1997Description: 153 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780820430584
- 0820430587
- 832.509353 HOR 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Books | Anna Centenary Library | 832.509353 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 220911 |
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| 832.4 MAR The plays. / | 832.5 STA The constructive art of Gryphius' historical tragedies / | 832.509 RUT The dialogue of the dead in eighteenth-century Germany. / | 832.509353 HOR Survival in Simplicissimus and Mutter Courage / | 832.6 GUT Schiller the dramatist : a study of gesture in the plays / | 832.6 LAA Seeking meaning in Goethe's Faust / | 832.6 RAI.23 The barometer-maker on the magic island : and, The diamond of the spirit king / |
This study argues that the underlying link between Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus and Brecht's Mutter Courage is a concern with human survival in a dangerous world. It focuses on the various threats to survival, the way the characters deal with them, and the price they pay for doing so. Furthermore, it discusses other survival possibilities explored in the texts and comes to the conclusion that both Brecht and Grimmelshausen present figures from the lower clergy as models of survival.This is a surprising irony in the light of Brecht's communism and the setting of religious conflict in both works.
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