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Fontane in the twenty-first century /

"Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German literature, the most important representative of poetic realism, and likely the best German-language novelist between Goethe and Mann, yet scholarly attention to his works often lags behind his stature, at least in the English-speaking acade...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lyon, John B., 1966- (Editor), Tucker, Brian, 1976- (Editor), Berman, Russell A., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2019.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Fontane in the twenty-first century / John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker
  • Narrative digression and the transformation of nationhood in Vor dem Sturm / Russell A. Berman
  • Nasty women : female anger as moral judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest / Holly A. Yanacek
  • Performing the philistine : gossip as a narrative device and a strategy for reflection on anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'adultera / Nicolas von Passavant
  • To have an eye : visual culture and the misapprehension of class in Irrungen, Wirrungen / Brian Tucker
  • Fontane as a pacifist? the antiwar message in Quitt and Fontane's changing attitude to militarism / James N. Bade
  • Disjunctive transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel / John B. Lyon
  • On the "right measure" in Effi Briest : ethics and aesthetics of the prosaic / Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren
  • Transfiguration, effect, and engagement : Theodor Fontane's aesthetic thought / Michael J. White
  • Fontane and world literature : Prussians, Jews, and the specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls / Todd Kontje
  • Von Zwanzig bis dreissig : the male author in parts / Lynne Tatlock
  • Melusine von Barby's barriers and connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin / Christian Thomas
  • Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin / Ervin Malakaj.