From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form (New Directions in German Studies)

This Volume Is A Response To A Renewed Interest In Narrative Form In Contemporary Literary Studies, Taking Up The Question Of Literary Narratives And Their Encounters With Modernism And Postmodernism Within The German-language Milieu. Original Essays Written By Scholars Of German And Comparative Literature Approach The Issue Of Narrative Form Anew, Analyzing The Ways In Which Modernist And Postmodernist German-language Narratives Frame And/or Deconstruct Historical Narratives. Beginning With The German-language Modernist Author Par Excellence, Franz Kafka, The Volume's Essays Explore The Unique Perspective On Historical Change Offered By Literature. The Authors (kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, And Wolf, Among Others) And Works Interpreted In The Essays Included Here Span The Period From Before World War I To The Post-holocaust, Post-wall Present. Individual Essays Focus On Modernism, Postmodernism, Narrative Theory, And Autobiography.--book Description, Amazon.com. Introduction : Kafka, Modernism, And Beyond / Sabine Wilke -- Kafka's Slippages. Ritardando In Das Schlofs / Stanley Corngold -- Kafka's 'a Hunger Artist' As Allegory Of Bourgeois Subject Construction / Imke Meyer -- Kafka Effects. Hofmannsthal After 1918 : The Present As Exile / Jens Rieckmann -- Yvan Goll's Die Eurokokke : A Reading Through Walter Benjamin's Passagen-werk / Rolf J. Goebel -- Narrative Theory. Else Meets Dora : Narratology As A Tool For Illuminating Literary Trauma / Gail Finney -- Das Kleine Ich : Robert Menasse And Masculinity In Real Time / Heide Schlipphacke -- Sebald's Encounters With French Narrative / Judith R. Ryan -- Autobiography. Gender, Pshychoanalysis, And Childhood Autobiography : Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster / Lorna Martens -- Provisional Existence / Walter H. Sokel. Edited By Sabine Wilke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form a new, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography." [écran d'accueil web du livre électronique consulté sur la plateforme EBL le 9 octobre 2013] "This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography."--Opening screen of ebook's web page (EBL platform, October 9, 2013) Annotation This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll,Schnitzler, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography Content: Introduction Sabine Wilke: Kafka, Modernism, and Beyond I: Kafka's Slippages Stanley Corngold: Ritardando in Das Schlos Imke Meyer: Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" as Allegory of Bourgeois Subject Construction II: Kafka Effects Jens Rieckmann: Hofmannsthal after 1918: The Present as Exile Rolf Goebel: Yvan Goll's Die Eurokokke: a Reading Through Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk III: Narrative Theory Gail Finney: Else Meets Dora: Narratology as a Tool for Illuminating Literary Trauma Heidi Schlipphacke: "Das kleine Ich": Robert Menasse and Masculinity in Real Time Judith R. Ryan: Sebald's Encounters with French Narrative IV: Autobiography Lorna Martens: Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Childhood Autobiography: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster Walter H. Sokel: Provisional Existence.