Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / / Tobias Boes.

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Superior document:Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Physical Description:x, 201 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism
  • Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history
  • Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830
  • Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire
  • Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Doblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
  • Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.