From Kafka to Sebald : modernism and narrative form / edited by Sabine Wilke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilke, Sabine, 1957- editor.

Series:

New directions in German studies ; v. 5.

New directions in German studies ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

German fiction.

German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction : Kafka, Modernism, and Beyond / Sabine Wilke

Part I. Kafka's Slippages. Chapter 2. Ritardando in Das Schloß / Stanley Corngold ; Chapter 3. Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" as Allegory of Bourgeois Subject Construction / Imke Meyer

Part II. Kafka Effects. Chapter 4. Hofmannsthal after 1918 : The Present as Exile / Jens Rieckmann ; Chapter 5. Yvan Goll's Die Eurokokke : A Reading Through Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk / Rolf J. Goebel

Part III. Narrative Theory. Chapter 6. Else Meets Dora : Narratology as a Tool for Illuminating Literary Trauma / Gail Finney ; Chapter 7. "Das kleine Ich" : Robert Menasse and Masculinity in Real Time / Heidi Schlipphacke ; Chapter 8. Sebald's Encounters with French Narrative / Judith R. Ryan

Part IV. Autobiography. Chapter 9. Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Childhood Autobiography : Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster / Lorna Martens ; Chapter 10. Provisional Existence / Walter H. Sokel

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613806024

9781472543042

1472543041

9781282133440

1282133446

9781441198235

1441198237

OCLC:

799765946