The Case of Literature : : Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka /

The Case of Literature : : Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka / / Arne Höcker.

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In The Case of Literature, Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Döblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and he argues...

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Höcker, Arne,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Making the Case around 1800
  • 1. The Case of Werther and the Institution of Literature
  • 2. “Observe, Write!”: Histories of Observation and the Psychological Novel Anton Reiser
  • 3. Hot and Cold: History, Casuistry, and Literature in Schiller and Kleist
  • 4. Conclusion: Literary Reference and Authorship
  • Part II. The Case between Psychiatry, Law, and Literature
  • 5. Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the Problem of Legal Responsibility
  • 6. The Drama of the Case: Making the Case of Woyzeck
  • 7. Drama, Anecdote, Case: Wedekind’s Lulu
  • 8. Conclusion: The Fiction of Authority
  • Part III. Novelistic Casuistry
  • 9. Freud’s Cases
  • 10. Fantasy of Facts: Döblin’s Poetics of Uncertainty
  • 11. The Man of Possibilities: Musil’s Moosbrugger
  • 12. Conclusion: The Function of Fiction
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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