Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Images through the lens
  • Goethe's Italienische Reise in its European context
  • "Paris change!" perception and narration
  • Reading "nasty" great books
  • II. Kleist: "through green spectacles"
  • Assent and resistance in Die Marquise von O
  • and Der Tod in Venedig
  • Through multiple lenses: ironies in Kleist's Die Marquise von O
  • Reading Kleist and Kafka
  • III. Mirror images?
  • Realism and its "code of accreditation"
  • The game of the name
  • Not so long ago: historical allusion in realist fiction
  • Rereading Buddenbrooks.