Formative Fictions : : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /

Formative Fictions : : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / / Tobias Boes.

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The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Boes, Tobias,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Methodological Background
  • 1. The Limits of National Form: Normativity and Performativity in Bildungsroman Criticism
  • 2. Apprenticeship of the Novel: Goethe and the Invention of History
  • Part II. Comparative Studies
  • 3. Epigonal Consciousness: Stendhal, Immermann, and the "Problem of Generations" around 1830
  • 4. Long-Distance Fantasies: Freytag, Eliot, and National Literature in the Age of Empire
  • 5. Urban Vernaculars: Joyce, Döblin, and the "Individuating Rhythm" of Modernity
  • Conclusion: Apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the Ends of Time
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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