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- Title
Abstieg trotz Bildung: Inszenierungen sozialer Unsicherheit in der Gegenwartsliteratur (Melle, Kisch, Bilkau).
- Authors
Steinmayr, Markus
- Abstract
Many figures of educational descent are to be found in contemporary German literature. This article takes this observation as an opportunity to bring together social science descriptions of the present (precarity) with arguments of form and genre (Bildungsroman, Angestelltenroman). The main features of a poetics of social politics are developed from readings of Thomas Melle's 3000 Euro, Robert Kisch's Möbelhaus, and Kristine Bilkau's Die Glücklichen, a politics that takes the welfare state programming of the social as an opportunity to inquire about the function of literary representation in the culture of the welfare state (Franz Xaver Kaufmann).
- Subjects
WELFARE state in literature; GERMAN literature; MODERN literature; EQUALITY in literature; DIE Glucklichen (Book); 3000 Euro (Book)
- Publication
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
0340-4528
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/iasl-2019-0005