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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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Library,
2020.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


