Theodor Fontane And The European Context

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
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Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484856

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Theodor Fontane and the European Context by Anonim Pdf

On the centenary of Fontane’s death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars from different countries and disciplines, they focus on novels and theatre reviews from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, comparative literature and translation theory, and in the contexts of topography and painting. Connections and crosscurrents emerge to reveal new aspects of Fontane’s poetics and to produce contrasting but complementary readings of his novels. He appears in the company of predecessors and contemporaries, such as Scott, Thackeray, Saar, Ibsen, Turgenev, but also in that of writers he has rarely, if ever, been seen beside, such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Trollope, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Beckett and Faulkner. The historical novel and the social position of women are each a recurring focus of interest. Fontane emerges as receptive to other voices, as a precursor of developments in modern narrative, and confirmed as the novelist who brings the nineteenth-century German novel closest to the broad traditions of European realism.

Author : Helen Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0854571965

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Theodore Fontane and the European Context by Helen Chambers Pdf

Author : Brian Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501368370

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Theodor Fontane by Brian Tucker Pdf

What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light, the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval. Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability, falsehood, and indifference to truth, it is now easier to perceive in Fontane's novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language's credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer, Tucker's analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane's novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition.

Author : James N. Bade
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : German literature
ISBN : 9783826040771

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Fontane's Landscapes by James N. Bade Pdf

Aimed primarily at English-speaking undergraduate students of German literature, but also with graduate students and a general readership in mind, this book deals with the literary landscapes in Theodor Fontane's best known novels - 'Schach von Wuthenow' (1882), 'Irrungen, Wirrungen' (1888), and 'Effi Briest' (1895). It is an illuminating introduction to one of Europe's finest novelists. "It is an excellent idea to guide readers through the novels by way of focusing on the landscapes. James Bade brings an enormous amount of material into the discussion and is always detailed and precise. The book reads very well and enriches the Fontane literature.--publisher website.

Author : Michael James White
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781907322297

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Space in Theodor Fontane's Works by Michael James White Pdf

The novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), Germany's most important Realist, have long been appreciated for the symbolism of their represented worlds. In this study, Michael White examines the significance of space and spatial experience across Fontane's oeuvre, providing analyses of non-fiction prose and less well-known novels, alongside major works and poetry. The study reveals not only a complex and varied spatial symbolism, but also that space itself is a thematic concern in Fontane's writing. His texts portray human beings' relationships with their worlds, and how and to what end they invest their environment with meaning. Fontane's novels and travel writings emerge as profoundly reflexive discourses on art and its function for the individual. Michael J. White completed his Ph.D. at St Andrews and now teaches German at the Institut de la formation des maîtres, Université d'Artois.

Author : Helen Chambers
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571130845

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The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane by Helen Chambers Pdf

Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends. This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.

Author : DS Mayfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110701654

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Rhetoric and Contingency by DS Mayfield Pdf

Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of advancing fortuitously, of commencing or ending accidentally, of a certain malleability. In theory, any human being is potentially capacitated to conceive of—and convey—the chance, view, or fact that matters may be otherwise, or not at all; with respect to other lifeforms, this might be said animal’s distinctive characteristic. This state of play is both an everyday phenomenon, and an indispensable prerequisite for exceptional innovations in culture and science: contingency is the condition of possibility for any of the arts—be they dominantly concerned with thinking, crafting, or enacting. While their scope and method may differ, the (f)act of reckoning with—and taking advantage of—contingency renders rhetoricians and philosophers associates after all. In this regard, Aristotle and Blumenberg will be exemplary, hence provide the framework. Between these diachronic bridgeheads, close readings applying the nexus of rhetoric and contingency to a selection of (Early) Modern texts and authors are intercalated—among them La Celestina, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wilde, Fontane.

Author : Kathryn L. Ambrose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004304840

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The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature by Kathryn L. Ambrose Pdf

Kathryn Ambrose offers a new literary critical approach to the Woman Question in nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature, based on feminist theory, post-structuralism and the semiotics of barriers.

Author : John Rignall
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409422348

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George Eliot, European Novelist by John Rignall Pdf

Reading George Eliot as a European novelist among other European novelists, John Rignall explores her use of European travel, scenes and locations in her fiction and also places her novels in conversation with the work of other major European writers. Throughout Rignall shows Eliot's engagement with the cultures of France and Germany, suggestively making the case that Eliot's novels belong to the tradition of the European novel that descends from Cervantes.

Author : Paul Gifford,Tessa Hauswedell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Europe
ISBN : 3039119680

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Europe and Its Others by Paul Gifford,Tessa Hauswedell Pdf

"The essays represent a selection of papers delivered at an international conference held under the title 'Europe and its Others: Interperceptions, Past, Present, Future', at St Andrews University in June 2007, under the aegis of the Institute for European Cultural Identity Studies"--Introd.

Author : Peter Hutchinson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039109278

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Landmarks in the German Novel by Peter Hutchinson Pdf

There is a large pool of German novelists in whose oeuvre we may look for works of landmark significance, and at certain periods of its history German fiction is particularly rich. Yet although the novel begins to assert itself in the seventeenth century, we have to wait until the late eighteenth, and Goethe's first major prose work, Werther, to see it truly rise to the level of other genres. The thirteen novels featured in this collection have all proved milestones in the development of the form, and there is heavy prominence given to works by Goethe himself and by Thomas Mann. Through these, as well as those by such figures as Kafka, Hesse, and Günter Grass, we can trace the development of the novel to its far more 'self-conscious' form, ranging through the social studies of the nineteenth to works which treat a variety of intellectual, psychological and philosophical issues in the twentieth. A second volume will cover landmarks published between 1959 and the present day. These essays, all by specialists in the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

Author : John B. Lyon,Brian Tucker
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140097

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Fontane in the Twenty-First Century by John B. Lyon,Brian Tucker Pdf

Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.

Author : John Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351193290

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The Truth of Realism by John Walker Pdf

"In his new book, Walker offers a radical reassessment of the German realist novel in the nineteenth century. Especially in the English- speaking world, German narrative realism has persistently been interpreted as the literary expression of an ideology of the aesthetic. The German realist novel is alleged to reflect philosophical idealism: to reject the prose of modern society in favour of the poetry of the inner aesthetic life. This book challenges that received view. Walker argues that German narrative realism should be read not only in relation to, but in crucial respects against, the dominant philosophical idiom of nineteenth century Germany. German narrative realism often functions as a critique of the idea and ideology of inwardness in nineteenth century German culture. To understand this, the author argues, we must reread German realist novels above all as narratives, not as the supposed reflection of philosophical categories. The core of the book is therefore the close reading of eight of the best known realist novels in German by Keller, Raabe and Fontane. This reading shows how the German realist novel, far from transposing the assumptions of aesthetic idealism into narrative form, exposes the real consequences of those assumptions in the culture and society of its time. John Walker is Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London."

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191663178

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Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane Pdf

'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.' Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-hearted affair with a manipulative, womanizing officer, which ends when her husband is transferred to Berlin. Years later, events are triggered that will have profound consequences for Effi and her family. Effi Briest (1895) is recognized as one of the masterpieces by Theodor Fontane, Germany's premier realist novelist, and one of the great novels of marital relations together with Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It presents life among the conservative Prussian aristocracy with irony and gentle humour, and opposes the rigid and antiquated morality of the time by treating its heroine with sympathy and keen psychological insight. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Lynne Tatlock,Kurt Beals
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640141001

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German Literature As a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919 by Lynne Tatlock,Kurt Beals Pdf

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies to the present day, for better or worse. Literary histories, German self-representations, the view from abroad - all of these perspectives offer images of a culture ever more concerned with formulating a coherent, nationally focused idea of its origins, history, and cultural community. But even in this historical moment the German-speaking territories were not culturally self-contained; international forces always played a significant role in the constitution of the so-called "German" literary and cultural field. This volume rethinks the historical period with fourteen case studies that bring into view the push and pull of the national and international in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, undertaking a reframing of literary-cultural history that recognizes the interrelatedness of literatures and cultures across political and linguistic boundaries. Viewing even overtly national literary and cultural projects as belonging to an international system, these case studies examine the interrelations, organization, and positioning of the agents, forces, enterprises, and processes that constituted the German-language literary-cultural field, locating these ostensibly national developments within an inter- or even anti-national context.