Discuss the rhetorical and stylistic techniques Büchner employs in Der hessische Landbote (The Hessian Messenger) and in Woyzeck.
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. ââNackt und gebücktâ: Work in the Hessische Landbote and Woyzeckâ, Neue Germanistik, 2, 1982, pp. 7-10.
Benn, Maurice. The Drama of Revolution (Cambridge: CUP, 1976), chapter 2.
Dunne, Kerry. âWoyzeckâs Marie: âEin schlecht Menschâ? The Construction of Female Sexuality in Büchnerâs Woyzeckâ, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 26:4, 1990, pp. 294-308.
Harding, James M. âThe Preclusions of Progress: Woyzeckâs Challenge to Materialism and Social Changeâ, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 29: 1, 1993, pp. 28-42.
Kittsteiner, Heinz-Dieter and Helmut Lethen, âIch-Losigkeit, Entbürgerlichung und Zeiterfahrung. Ãber die Gleichgültigkeit zur âGeschichteâ in Büchners Woyzeckâ in Georg Büchner Jahrbuch 3, 1983, pp. 240-269.
Martin, Laura. âSchlechtes Mensch/gutes Opferâ: The Role of Marie in Georg Büchnerâs Woyzeckâ, Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture (1998), ed. Margaret Littler, pp. 51-66.
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Mills, Ken. âMoon, Madness and Murder: The Motivation of Woyzeckâs Killing of Marieâ, German Life and Letters¸41:4, 1988, pp. 430-436.
Reddick, John. Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994).