2. The Case of Jean Paul: Unreadable Writing, Unwritable Readings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Satire around 1800: Jean Paul
5. 1. Prolegomena 3
6. 2. The Case of Jean Paul: Unreadable Writing, Unwritable Readings 16
7. Part One. Inversion
8. 3. The Carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World (1965) 45
9. 4. Perspective and Repetition in Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters (1984) 62
10. 5. Destructive Negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986) 80
11. Part Two. Mythification
12. 6. Between Theory and Literature: Roland Barthes’ Mythologies (1957) 101
13. 7. Elfriede Jelinek’s Mythic Lust (1989) 119
14. 8. Viennese Paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher (1983) 136
15. Part Three. Citation
16. 9. From Stage to Page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990) 157
17. 10. Performing Theory in Literature: Thomas Meinecke’s Tomboy (1998) 170
18. 11. Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke’s Music (2004) 192
19. Conclusion. Satire after Satire
20. Bibliography 207
21. Index 227