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Paperback. Editor(s): Wilke, Sabine. Series: New Directions in German Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
New Directions in German Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781628928624
SKU
V9781628928624
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Sabine Wilke is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where she is also associated with European Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. Her research and teaching interests include modern German literature and culture, intellectual history and theory, and cultural studies. She has written books and articles on body constructions in modern German literature and culture, ... Read more
Reviews for From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form
This wide-ranging, sophisticated anthology provides impetus to the renewed interest in a scholarly narratological approach to prose fiction. By drawing an ark between Franz Kafka and W. G. Sebald... Wilke projects a whole spectrum of diverse narrative experiments. Ten expert scholars contribute findings which can readily be applied to modern narratives beyond any single national literature.
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