Adventure at arms : on the narrative formation of violence / Martin von Koppenfels, Manuel Mühlbacher, (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koppenfels, Martin von, editor.

Mühlbacher, Manuel, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Philology of adventure ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adventure stories--History and criticism.

Adventure stories.

Violence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Paderborn : Brill / Fink, [2025]

Contents:

Virginity and violence: the threatened body in Achilles Tatius's Leucippe and Clitophon / Susanne Gödde

Adventure, violence, and empire in the Greek and Latin versions of the "Ass-Tale" / Alexander Kirichenko

Bandits and brothers: violence and adventure from romance to novel / David Quint

Going feral: Helen Macdonald, Chrétien de Troyes, Donald Winnicott, and a transitional lion / Martin von Koppenfels

Rascals at war: narrated and narrative violence in the picaresque adventure novel / Hanno Ehrlicher

War as adventure? On the history of a correlation: with a reading of Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities / Oliver Grill

Adventurous hearts: Ernst Jünger's avant-garde / Michael Auer

Old Shatterhand's sardine can: the wounded hero and his pharmakon in Karl May's Winnetou I / Martin Roussel

Adventurers in distress: aesthetics and functions of violence in German colonial novels / Elisabeth Hutter

Organizing violence in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom / Vid Stevanović

Rapiers for musketeers: the choice of weapons in Alexandre Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires and the genesis of the swashbuckling novel / Ralf Junkerjürgen

'That swing? thanks for noticing.': popular prosimetrum: physical violence as rhythmic other in pictorial adventure narratives / Stephan Packard

Gone are the days: the recent western, the imagination of violence, and the abandoning of the hero / Jörn Ahrens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9783846768709

3846768707

Publisher Number:

40032765119

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