Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Text and Sub-text: Reflections on the Literary Exploration of Taboo Experience
M. Swales Chapter 2. "Velorene Töchter": Reticence and Ambiguity in German Domestic Drama in the Late Eighteenth Century E. McInnes
Chapter 3. Saying and Not-saying in Hölderlin's Work D. Constantine
Chapter 4. Taboos in Poetic-Realist Writers D. Jackson
Chapter 5. Of Madness and Masochism: Sexuality in Women's Writing at the Turn of the Century C. Weedon
Chapter 6. The Double Taboo: Male Bodies in Kafka's Der Prozeß E. Boa
Chapter 7. The Frustrated Poet: Homosexuality and Taboo in Der Tod in Venedig T. J. Reed
Chapter 8. Discovering a Taboo: the Nazi Past in Literary-political Discourse 1958-1967 H. Peitsch
Chapter 9. Inarticulacy: Lesbianism and Language in post-1945 German Literature G. Paul
Chapter 10. Sex and Politics: the Case of the GDR J.H. Reid
Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index