1: Managing Appearances in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, 1901

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: Managing Appearances in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, 1901 20
7. 2: Oratory and Publicity in Heinrich Mann’s Der Untertan, 1914/18 40
8. 3: Organizing Speech in Gabriele Tergit’s Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm, 1931 57
9. 4: Seeing through the Rhetoric in Bertolt Brecht’s Dreigroschenroman, 1934 78
10. 5: Giving an Account of the Self in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, 1971 98
11. 6: Negotiating Bureaucracy in Hermann Kant’s Das Impressum, 1972 120
12. 7: Corporate Discourse in Friedrich Christian Delius’s Unsere Siemens-Welt, 1972 133
13. 8: Producing Ethos in Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht, 2004 153
14. 9: Communicative Contests in Philipp Schönthaler’s Das Schiff das singend zieht auf seiner Bahn, 2013 171
15. Conclusion 195
16. Notes 199
17. Bibliography 245
18. Index 273