From Kafka to Sebald
Subtitle: modernism and narrative form
By: edited by Sabine Wilke
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441122674
Subjects: German fiction; Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "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, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.