Acts of Narrative : : Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction /

Acts of Narrative : : Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction / / Patrick O'Neill.

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Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill dev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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O'Neill, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1996
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Theory / Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Death in Venice: Narrative Situations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig
  • 2. The Trial: Paradigms of Indeterminacy in Franz Kafka's Der Froze ft
  • 3. Harry Haller's Records: The Ludic Imagination in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
  • 4. Auto da fé: Reading Misreading in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung
  • 5. The Tin Drum: Implications of Unreliability in Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel
  • 6. Two Views: The Authority of Discourse in Uwe Johnson's Zwei Ansichten
  • 7. The Goalie's Anxiety: Signs and Semiosis in Peter Handke's Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
  • 8. The Lime Works: Narrative and Noise in Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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