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The Case of Literature : Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka /

"This book shows that narrative literature beginning in the late 18th century works out a mode of representing individual cases that exceeds singularity and novelty but stops short of generality and moral didacticism. Two essential questions guide the author's work here: How does this new...

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Autor principal: Höcker, Arne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Library, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 0 |a Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 
505 0 |a The case of Werther and the institution of literature -- "Observe, write!" : histories of observation and the psychological novel Anton Reiser -- Hot and cold : history, casuistry, and literature in Schiller and Kleist -- Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the problem of legal responsibility -- The drama of the case : making the case of Woyzeck -- Drama, anecdote, case : Wedekind's Lulu -- Freud's cases -- Fantasy of facts : Döblin's poetics of uncertainty -- The man of possibilities : Musil's Moosbrugger. 
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