A mythic journey Günter Grass's Tin drum /
Edward Diller.
- [Lexington] : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1974.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The mythology of The tin drum -- The masquerade of the great earth mother -- Mythic birth and supernatural aids -- The education and early adventures of the hero -- From timeless time to the age of iron -- Imitations of Oskar, Christ, and Satan -- Unrest and resignation in the West -- The descent to trophonios -- Travel, triumph, and despair -- A streetcar ride to folly and misfortune -- Epilegomena to a drumming dwarf -- Genealogy -- Chronology -- German-English concordance.
Although The tin drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework. Here is the full-length study to penetrate the brilliance of Gunter Grass's style and uncover the novel's mythopoetic core. In A mythic journey : Gunter Grass's Tin drum, author Edward Diller convincingly demonstrates the still valid relationship between modern and classical literary criticism. By reading The tin drum as both modern myth and historical epic, he provides a profound and sensitive inter.
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