Grass and Grimmelshausen

Günter Grass's "Das Treffen in Telgte" and Rezeptionstheorie

• Author(s): Susan C. Anderson,
• Publisher: Camden House
• Pages: 107
• ISBN_10: 0938100483
  ISBN_13: 9780938100485
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... Discusses the Grass novel Das Treffen in Telgte, which is also a tribute to Gruppe 1947 founder Hans Werner Richter, and explores the influence of Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus and Courasche over Grass. Applies theories of the aesthetics of reception (Rezeptionsästhetik) propounded by Hans Robert Jauss.