The case of literature : : forensic narratives from Goethe to Kafka / / Arne Höcker.

• Superior document: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
• VerfasserIn: Höcker, Arne,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca : : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought.; Cornell scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages).
• Notes: "A Signale book."; Previously issued in print: 2020.

This text offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. The book's reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Buchner, Doblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and it argues that modern lite...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 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
• 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
• 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