Metamorphosis in modern German literature : transforming bodies, identities and affects /

Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place does it have in modern Germany? Tara Beaney analyses metamorphosis in literary texts from the Romantic period onwards, focusing on the affects involved....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beaney, Tara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Legenda, 2016.
Series:Germanic literatures ; 9.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Metamorphosis in literature.
German literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
German literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
Métamorphose (Biologie) dans la littérature.
Littérature allemande > Histoire et critique > 19e siècle.
Littérature allemande > Histoire et critique > 20e siècle.
German literature.
Deutsch
Literatur
Metamorphose > Motiv
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Hochschulschrift
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Inner realms : the painful pleasure of metamorphosis in E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • 2. Being animal : Kafka and the wordless world
  • 3. Cocooned from the past : temporal subversion in Marie Luise Kaschnitz and Jenny Erpenbeck
  • 4. Metamorphoses under the influence : transformations, politics, poetics and affects in Yoko Tawada.

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