Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

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Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by: John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker
With contributions by: Brian Tucker , Christian Thomas , Ervin Malakaj , Holly A. Yanacek , James N. Bade , John B. Lyon , Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren , Lynne Tatlock , Michael Michael White , Nicolas von Passavant , Russell A. Berman and Todd Kontje

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 201 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.

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Tucker Brian :

BRIAN TUCKER is Professor of German at Wabash College, IN.Tucker Brian :

BRIAN TUCKER is Professor of German at Wabash College, IN.Tatlock Lynne :

LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.Michael White Michael :

MICHAEL WHITE is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in German at St Andrews University. His principal areas of research are in nineteenth-century literature, especially Theodor Fontane and Realism. His publications include: Space in Theodor Fontane's Works: Theme and Poetic Function (MHRA, 2012); Theodor Fontane and Cultural Mediation, co-edited with R. Robertson (Oxford 2015). He has co-edited (with Andrew Cusack) a volume entitled Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes (2021).

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Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty-First Century John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1: Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm Russell A. Berman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2: Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest Holly A. Yanacek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3: Performing the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane’s L’Adultera Nicolas von Passavant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4: To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen Brian Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5: Fontane as a Pacifist? The Antiwar Message in Quitt (1890) and Fontane’s Changing Attitude to Militarism James N. Bade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
6: Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel John B. Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
7: On the “Right Measure” in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8: Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane’s Aesthetic Thought Michael J. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
9: Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls Todd Kontje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10: Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig: The Male Author in Parts Lynne Tatlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
11: Melusine von Barby’s Barriers and Connections in Fontane’s Der Stechlin Christian Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12: Senescence and Fontane’s Der Stechlin Ervin Malakaj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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May 24, 2019

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9781787444669

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Camden House

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266

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15 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787444669

eBook ISBN: 9781787444669

Keywords for this book

Fontane; Twenty-First Century; German Literature; Theodor Fontane; Poetic Realism; Contemporary Relevance; Methodological Approaches; Literary Studies; Historical Transformations; Critical Interests; Literary Production; Literature Analysis; German Novelist; Brian Tucker; Literary Criticism

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Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

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