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Project

Humour and intertextuality as ideology-critical strategies in Thomas Brussig's oeuvre
Code
01D25610
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
GDR literature humour in literature literary ideological criticism Contemporary 20th Century GDR German literature
 
Project description
 

Thomas Brussig's Wendeliteratur is characterized by an ideology citique, aiming at the GDR state, its agents and the absurd realisations of their ideological programme, as well as on the contemporary sociopolitical developments in unified Germany. The project analyzes how humour and intertextuality, determining both the ways in which the texts are organized and in which they operate, are being used in this kaleidoscopic and ideology-critical assimilation of the youngest German history.