Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman

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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...

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Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2012
Cornell University Library,
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
German fiction > History and criticism.
European fiction > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature.
City and town life in literature.
Comparative literature > German and European.
Comparative literature > European and German.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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