The German pícaro and modernity
Subtitle: between underdog and shape-shifter
By: Bernhard F. Malkmus
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781441146151
Subjects: German fiction; Rogues and vagabonds in literature; German Picaresque literature; History and criticism
Other titles: Between underdog and shape-shifter
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Boxing (in) life stories. The Spanish picaresque tradition and Its European repercussions; title: "Students who have lost the Holy Writ" : Franz Kafka's Der Verschollene; title: Students who have lost their teachers : Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten; title: Picaresque topoi I. Tertium datur : between autonomy and self-preservation; title: The confidence man as shape-shifter : Thomas Mann's  Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull; title: Picaresque topoi II. Third space : A stage for the modern picaro; title: The shape-shifter as underdog : Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur; title: Picaresque topoi III. Third Agents : The inclusion of the excluded; title: The eternal recurrence of the picaresque body : Günter Grass' Die Blechtrommel; title: Drumming (out) life stories.