A Theory Of The German Novel
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A Theory Of The German Novel
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Author : John Gadway
language : en
Publisher: Kanebegone, Incorporated
Release Date : 2013-10-21
A Theory Of The German Novel written by John Gadway and has been published by Kanebegone, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-21 with categories.
Quick, name a German novelist from the nineteenth century you would rank alongside the great British, American, French and Russian novelists of the same period. Stumped? Don't feel bad--there really were not any world-class novelists writing in German during this period. In his doctoral dissertation (The Castle in the Bildungsroman, Tulane, 1972), Gadway offered an explanation for this lack in terms of the long shadow that was cast in German literature by Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. His dissertation director, Professor Margaret Groben, had this to say of the highly original work: I have, underneath my pleasure in your work, the uneasy feeling that it can't be true, that I cannot have read it carefully enough! Your study gives me a new view of the Bildungsroman and invalidates my idea of why it is no longer possible in its pristine form. That dissertation is reprinted here with a new preface and an appendix that revisits the question Gadway had attempted to answer earlier, but now with a deeper understanding of Goethe's importance, not just to German cultural identity, but, more significantly, for his impassioned critique of scientific reductionism and the attendant mechanical view of nature. Gadway argues that with Wilhelm Meister, the prototypical Bildungsroman, Goethe infused this peculiarly German novel form with an extraliterary moment that became unwieldy in lesser hands. By following the evolution of a striking poetic space that features prominently in the representative novels in this tradition (the castle or castle-like place where the quasi-orphan figure of the Bildungsroman meets one or more foster father figures who mentor him in how to be in the world) Gadway is able to show how the great German novelists of the first half of the twentieth century mined this tradition to make statements about man's place in modern society that are easily misunderstood by readers not familiar with the vocabulary that is peculiar to the universe of discourse in which they are expressed. Approximately 15% of the original dissertation is in German, as the work was intended for expert readers. Because the German portions serve principally to support statements made in English, the non-German speaker may follow the development of the analysis easily enough. The German portions cited in the Appendix, consisting of a 24-page chapter reprinted from a work intended for the general public, are rendered in English by the author.
The Rise Of The Modern German Novel
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Author : Russell A. Berman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1986
The Rise Of The Modern German Novel written by Russell A. Berman and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Theory Of The Novel In Early German Romanticism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Theory Of The Novel In Early German Romanticism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Beyond Theory
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Author : Benjamin Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1993
Beyond Theory written by Benjamin Bennett and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Bennett perceives that many of the questions posed by eighteenth-century discourse - such as the difference between thought and language, the nature of the social, or the origin of the individual in the communal - remain current for us today. Beyond Theory is sure to provoke thought and stimulate debate among Germanists, comparatists, literary theorists, and others interested in the cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe.
The Literary Absolute
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Author : Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
The Literary Absolute written by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
The first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism.
German Romantic Literary Theory
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Author : Ernst Behler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-04-22
German Romantic Literary Theory written by Ernst Behler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Professor Behler provides a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed in the German Romantic period.
Heimat
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Author : Peter Blickle
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2004
Heimat written by Peter Blickle and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A new analysis of one of the most loaded terms in the German language: Heimat, or Homeland. The idea of Heimat (home, homeland, native region) has been as important to German self-perceptions over the last two hundred years as the shifting notion of the German nation. While the idea of Heimat has been long neglected in English studies of German culture--among other reasons because the word Heimat has no exact equivalent in English--this book offers us the first cross-disciplinary and comprehensive analysis, in English or German, of this all-pervasive German idea. Blickle shows how the idea of Heimat interpenetrates German notions of modernity, identity, gender, nature, and innocence. Blickle reminds us of such commonplace expressions of Heimat sentimentality as Biedermeier landscapes of Alpine meadows and castles on the Rhine, but also finds the Heimat preoccupation in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. Always aware of the many literary representations of Heimat (for instance in Schiller, Hölderlin, Heine, Kafka, and Thomas Mann), Blickle does not argue for the fundamental innocence of Heimat. Instead he shows again and again how the idealization of a home ground leads to borders of exclusion. Peter Blickle is associate professor of German at Western Michigan University.
The German Bildungsroman
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Author : Michael Minden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-04-17
The German Bildungsroman written by Michael Minden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book was originally published in 1997. The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy; Michael Minden addresses it as literature. He offers detailed readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language, from Goethe to Mann, including Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Agathon, Anton Reiser, Hyperion, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Der grüne Heinrich, Der Nachsommer, and Der Zauberberg. Looking at the novels from the points of view of gender, subjectivity, and the ideology of the aesthetic, and taking account of the literary theory, Minden uncovers aspects and motifs which subvert traditional ideas of the Bildungsroman and raise questions about the function and status of literature.
The Theory Of German Word Order From The Renaissance To The Present
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Author : Aldo Domenico Scaglione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-01-01
The Theory Of German Word Order From The Renaissance To The Present written by Aldo Domenico Scaglione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with categories.
The Fate Of The Self
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Author : Stanley Corngold
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1994
The Fate Of The Self written by Stanley Corngold and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
Much recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to take seriously the question of the self. French theorists--such as Derrida, Barthes, Benveniste, Foucault, Lacan, and Lévi-Strauss--have in various ways proclaimed the death of the subject, often turning to German intellectual tradition to authorize their views. Stanley Corngold's heralded book, The Fate of the Self, published for the first time in paperback with a spirited new preface, appears at a time when the relationship between the self and literature is a matter of renewed concern. Originally published in 1986 (Columbia University Press), the book examines the poetic self of German intellectual tradition in light of recent French and American critical theory. Focusing on seven major German writers--Hölderlin, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Mann, Kafka, Freud, and Heidegger--Corngold shows that their work does not support the desire to discredit the self as an origin of meaning and value but reconstructs the allegedly fragmented poetic self through effects of position and style. Offering new and subtle models of selfhood, The Fate of the Self is a source of rich insight into the work of these authors, refracted through poststructuralist critical perspectives.