A Mythic Journey: Gunter Grass''s Tin Drum
ISBN: 9780813162768
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

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 interpretation of one of the masterpieces of 20th century literature.

Edward Diller is a professor of German at the University of Oregon.


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