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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman /

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The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation, " has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In 'Formative Fictions', To...

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Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press : 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bildungsroman
Nationalism and literature.
German fiction.
European fiction.
Bildungsromans.
City and town life in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
Nationalisme et litterature.
Roman europeen > Histoire et critique.
Roman allemand > Histoire et critique.
Comparative literature > European and German.
Comparative literature > German and European.
European fiction > History and criticism.
German fiction > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Europa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity
  • Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.

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