Formative fictions nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /

Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012.
Series:Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10612406
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, Dθoblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
  • Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.