Formative fictions [electronic resource] : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / Tobias Boes.

By: Boes, Tobias, 1976-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)Publication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012Description: x, 201 pISBN: 9780801465659 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Bildungsromans -- History and criticism | German fiction -- History and criticism | European fiction -- History and criticism | Nationalism and literature | City and town life in literature | Comparative literature -- German and European | Comparative literature -- European and GermanGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/9354 LOC classification: PN3448.B54 | B64 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Doblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Doblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.

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