Collection alternative
Collection Alternative was a literary theoretical series within the Luchterhand collection , a paperback series by Luchterhand-Verlag .
Story and concept
The Alternative Collection, in lower case on the book cover like the magazine Alternative , which Hildegard Brenner published in 1964–1982, was founded by Hildegard Brenner when she was appointed to the chair for literary theory and sociology at the University of Bremen in 1971. Each band has two counts: 1 = 19, 2 = 35, 3 = 40, 4 = 60, 5 = 87, 6 = 97, 7 = 123. The series wanted to advance the methodological discussion around the analysis of superstructure phenomena.
The volumes of the series
- Volume 1: Helga Gallas : Marxist literary theory. Controversies in the League of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers , 1971 (2nd edition 1971, 3rd edition 1972, 4th edition 1974)
- Volume 2: Helga Gallas (Ed.): Structuralism as an interpretative method , Darmstadt, 1972
- Volume 3: Ginka Steinwachs : Mythology of Surrealism or the reconversion of culture into nature. A structural analysis of Breton's Nadja , 1971
- Volume 4: Georg Fülberth : Proletarian party and bourgeois literature. Disputes in the German social democracy of the Second International about the possibilities and limits of a socialist literary policy , 1972
- Volume 5: Dieter Richter (Ed.): The political children's book. Current historical documentation , 1973
- Volume 6: H. Gustav Klaus (Ed.): Marxist literary criticism in England. The "Thirties movement" , 1973
- Volume 7: Pierre Macherey : On the theory of literary production. Studies on Tolstoj, Verne, Defoe, Balzac , 1974