The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel / edited by Graham Bartram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bartram, Graham, 1946- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German fiction.

Bildungsromans--History and criticism.

Bildungsromans.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.

Contents:

The German novel in the long twentieth century / Graham Bartram

Contexts of the novel : society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present / Lynn Abrams

The novel in Wilhelmine Germany : from realism to satire / Alan Bance

Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers : Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn / Ritchie Robertson

Franz Kafka : the radical modernist / Stanley Corngold

Modernism and the Bildungsroman : Thomas Mann's magic mountain / Russell A. Berman

Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s : Hermann Broch and Robert Musil / Graham Bartram, Philip Payne

Images of the city / Burton Pike

Women writers in the "golden" twenties / Elizabeth Boa

The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel / Michael Minden

The German novel during the Third Reich / Ronald Speirs

History, memory, fiction after the Second World War / Dagmar Barnouw

Aesthetics and resistance : Böll, Grass, Weiss / J.H. Reid

The kleiner Mann and modern times : from Fallada to Walser / Anthony Waine

The "critical" novel in the GDR / Patricia Herminghouse

Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era : Max Frisch and Peter Handke / Michael Butler

Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s / Allyson Fiddler

The postmodern German novel / Paul Michael Lützeler.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes notes.

ISBN:

1-139-81548-2

0-511-99978-X