Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature

This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass’s complete works and baroque literature. Grass’s employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber’s argument moves from an outlin...

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description This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass’s complete works and baroque literature. Grass’s employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber’s argument moves from an outline of general thematic parallels in the early works to an analysis of the conscious use of baroque literature in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. He offers both a close reading of Grass and general reflections on how a past literary tradition can be adopted by a modern writer. The study focuses on the themes of vanity, carpe diem, and Senecan Stoicism in the early works; it discusses parallels between the rhetorical structure of the courtly-historical novel and Der Butt and traces the artist’s melancholy and baroque allegories in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1671902025-10-16T12:57:37Z Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature Weber, Alexander baroque German literature stoicism Der Butt Das Treffen in Telgte thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germany thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 This is the first study to discuss the affinity between Grass’s complete works and baroque literature. Grass’s employment of baroque literature is of particular interest because it takes up a tradition from which German literature has long broken away. Alexander Weber’s argument moves from an outline of general thematic parallels in the early works to an analysis of the conscious use of baroque literature in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. He offers both a close reading of Grass and general reflections on how a past literary tradition can be adopted by a modern writer. The study focuses on the themes of vanity, carpe diem, and Senecan Stoicism in the early works; it discusses parallels between the rhetorical structure of the courtly-historical novel and Der Butt and traces the artist’s melancholy and baroque allegories in Der Butt and Das Treffen in Telgte. 2025-10-16T12:57:36Z 2025-10-16T12:57:36Z 2025-10-14T13:52:32Z 1995 book ONIX_20251014T154955_9781839546792_2 0957-0322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106487 9781839546792 0901286508 https://admin.directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167190 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106487/1/9781839546792.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b59b5da 10.59860/td.b59b5da 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546792 0901286508 Texts and Translations 199 Cambridge open access
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Weber, Alexander
Günter Grass's Use of Baroque Literature
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German literature
stoicism
Der Butt
Das Treffen in Telgte
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