Examines the works of contemporary German writers and the changing contexts of German literature from the 1960s to the 1970s.

Examines the works of contemporary German writers and the changing contexts of German literature from the 1960s to the 1970s.

Introduction - from the 1960s to the 1970s - the changing contexts of German literature, D. Roberts
the republic of letters and the state - permutations of "Geist" and "Macht" in the Federal Republic since the early 1970s, W. van der Will
political realism of the 1970s, K. Bullivant
"neue subjektivitat", M. McGowan
recent German writing and the influence of popular culture, A. Waine
feminist writing in West Germany, J. Wigmore
West German poetry of the 1970s, J. Sierra-Ballester and A. Stephens
the novel of the everyday, D.L. Hoffmeister
the spectre of the Third Reich - the West German novel of the 1970s and national socialism, K. Bullivant
the "literaturverfilmungswelle", J. Sandford
the "other" German literature - convergence and cross-fertilization, D. Tate
Thomas Bernhard, H. Chambers
the end of urbanity - Heinrich Boll in the 1970s, J.H. Reid
chasing the chameleon - with Hans Magnus Enzensberger into the 1970s and beyond, M. Kane
Peter Handke, M. Linstead
surrendering to the logic of flow - reading Alexander Kluge, P. Labanyi
Franz Xaver Kroetz, M. McGowan
when wishing still helped - Peter Schneider's left-wing melancholy, P. Labanyi
Martin Walser, A. Waine
culture, political power and the aesthetics of resistance - Peter Weiss's "die asthetik des widerstands", M. Kane
from the 1970s into the 1980s, K. Bullivant.