Formative Fictions
Boes, Tobias, 1976-
Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / [electronic resource] : Tobias Boes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012. - 1 online resource (x, 201 p. ) - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9780801465659 0801465656
Comparative literature--European and German.
Comparative literature--German and European.
City and town life in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
European fiction--History and criticism.
German fiction--History and criticism.
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3448.B54 / B64 2012
809.3/9354
Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / [electronic resource] : Tobias Boes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012. - 1 online resource (x, 201 p. ) - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9780801465659 0801465656
Comparative literature--European and German.
Comparative literature--German and European.
City and town life in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
European fiction--History and criticism.
German fiction--History and criticism.
Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3448.B54 / B64 2012
809.3/9354