Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman"

Formative Fictions Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman"

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 Fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2012
2012.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Comparative literature > European and German.
Comparative literature > German and European.
City and town life in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
European fiction > History and criticism.
German fiction > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433907606719
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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