Formative fictions
Subtitle: nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
By: Tobias Boes
Series: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell University Library
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801478031
Subjects: Nationalism and literature; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; Bildungsromans; German fiction; European and German; Comparative literature; European fiction; German and European
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism; title: Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history; title: Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830; title: Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire; title: Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity; title: Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.