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No Conceivable Hope: The Symbolic Function of Medusa, Clio, and the 'Fee' in Gunter Kunert's Work

  • K Dunne

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Abstract

The role of women and heterosexual themes in Kunert's work has received scant critical attention. Klaus Werner refers briefly to the love poems in Kunert's early collection Das kreuzbrave Liederbuch (1961), but does not mention sexuality (66). Horst Haase commends Kunert for depicting (hetero)sexual love and sensuality in Unschuld der Natur (1966) in a way that reflects socialist experience (1279), and Marieluise de Waijer-Wilke mentions that Kunert has written on the topic of (hetero)sexual love in Fremd daheim (1990) but does not elaborate further (890).
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-167
JournalThe German Quarterly
Volume76
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2003

Keywords

  • Literature in German

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