The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel / / Herman Meyer; ed. by Theodore Ziolkowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Meyer, Herman,
• HerausgeberIn: Ziolkowski, Theodore,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ziolkowski, Yetta.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2079
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as " . a literary historian, who has a sense for the mixture of seriousness and playfulness in literature, who can talk seriously about the play and ironically about the seriousness . who has at his disposal the most thorough knowledge and never becomes ponderous . writes easily and gracefully." The art of "ing is traced in Rabelais, Cervantes, and Sterne, followed by the development of these techniques in six major novelists from Wieland to Thomas Mann.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Translators' Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- Part One. European Bases: The Art of Quoting of The Great Humorists -- II. Frangois Rabelais -- III. Miguel de Cervantes -- IV. Laurence Sterne -- Part Two. Development of The Art of Quoting in Germany -- V. Christoph Martin Wieland -- VI. E.T.A. Hoifmann -- VII. Karl Leberecht Immermann -- VIII. Theodor Fontane -- IX. Wilhelm Raabe -- X. Thomas Mann -- Index