Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels
Part of Anglica Germanica Series 2
- Author: Alan Bance
- Date Published: August 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521155038
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This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins by setting Fontane's work in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in general, and Germany in particular, which was struggling with its late modernization. The increasing materialism of modern industrial society found its literary correlative in the rise of prose fiction to supplant poetry as the predominant literary mode. Fontane's career reflects this development: beginning as a writer of ballads and balladesque novels, he gradually developed into a realistic novelist capable of treating the most complex social relations. Professor Bance argues that Fontane's œuvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.
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- Date Published: August 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521155038
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Poesie and Prosa
3. Ellernklipp and Effi Briedt
4. Irrungen, Wirrungen
5. Unwiederbringlich
6. Frau Jenny Treibel
7. Die Poggenpuhls
8. Der Stechlin
Notes
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