Discuss the rhetorical and stylistic techniques Büchner employs in Der hessische Landbote (The Hessian Messenger) and in Woyzeck.
500 wors only.
Main texts:
Büchner, Georg. Der hessische Landbote/The Hessian Messenger (1834)
-. Woyzeck (1836/37)
Secondary literature:
Armstong, William Bruce. ‘“Nackt und gebückt”: Work in the Hessische Landbote and Woyzeck’, Neue Germanistik, 2, 1982, pp. 7-10.
Benn, Maurice. The Drama of Revolution (Cambridge: CUP, 1976), chapter 2.
Dunne, Kerry. ‘Woyzeck’s Marie: “Ein schlecht Mensch”? The Construction of Female Sexuality in Büchner’s Woyzeck’, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 26:4, 1990, pp. 294-308.
Harding, James M. ‘The Preclusions of Progress: Woyzeck’s Challenge to Materialism and Social Change’, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 29: 1, 1993, pp. 28-42.
Kittsteiner, Heinz-Dieter and Helmut Lethen, ‘Ich-Losigkeit, Entbürgerlichung und Zeiterfahrung. Über die Gleichgültigkeit zur “Geschichte” in Büchners Woyzeck’ in Georg Büchner Jahrbuch 3, 1983, pp. 240-269.
Martin, Laura. ‘Schlechtes Mensch/gutes Opfer’: The Role of Marie in Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck’, Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture (1998), ed. Margaret Littler, pp. 51-66.
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Mills, Ken. ‘Moon, Madness and Murder: The Motivation of Woyzeck’s Killing of Marie’, German Life and Letters¸41:4, 1988, pp. 430-436.
Reddick, John. Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994).
