Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / / Tobias Boes.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, N.Y. : : Cornell University Library,, 2012. ©2012. |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.