The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
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- Editor: Graham Bartram, Lancaster University
- Date Published: April 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521482530
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Theodor Fontane, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, and Gunther Grass are among the writers examined in this comprehensive introduction to the development of the German novel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion conveys the vitality and complexity of the modern German novel, and the debates surrounding it.
Read more- Contributions are provided by acknowledged specialists on one of the most important literary traditions of the twentieth century
- Examines literary, historical and cultural contexts for the German novel
- The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology and bibliography
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- Date Published: April 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521482530
- length: 322 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
Preface
A note concerning translations and bibliographical data
1. The German novel in the long twentieth century Graham Bartram
2. Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present Lynn Abrams
3. The novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire Alan Bance
4. Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers (Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn) Ritchie Robertson
5. Franz Kafka: the radical modernist Stanley Corngold
6. Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain Russell A. Berman
7. Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil Graham Bartram and Philip Payne
8. Images of the city Burton Pike
9. Women writers in the Weimar era Elizabeth Boa
10. The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel Michael Minden
11. The German novel during the Third Reich Ronald Speirs
12. History, memory, fiction after the Second World War Dagmar Barnouw
13. Aesthetics and resistance: Böll, Grass, Weiss J. H. Reid
14. The kleiner Mann and modern times - from Fallada to Walser Anthony Waine
15. The 'critical' novel in the GDR Patricia Herminghouse
16. Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke Michael Butler
17. Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s Allyson Fiddler
18. The German postmodern novel Paul Michael Lützeler.
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