E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
ISBN: 978-0-8014-6521-5
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
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Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.
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IntroductionPart I. Methodological Background1. The Limits of National Form: Normativity and Performativity in Bildungsroman Criticism2. Apprenticeship of the Novel: Goethe and the Invention of HistoryPart II. Comparative Studies3. Epigonal Consciousness: Stendhal, Immermann, and the "Problem of Generations" around 18304. Long-Distance Fantasies: Freytag, Eliot, and National Literature in the Age of Empire5. Urban Vernaculars: Joyce, Döblin, and the "Individuating Rhythm" of ModernityConclusion: Apocalipsis cum figuris: Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the Ends of TimeBibliography
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