Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung
Subtitle: a study of the narrator and narrative strategies
By: Josef K. Glowa.
Series: Renaissance and Baroque studies and texts ;; v. 27
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Fischart, Johann, 1546-1590.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 16th century.
Description: "This book is a new interpretation of Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung (1590), one of the most outstanding and puzzling works of German literature in the second half of the sixteenth century. As a greatly expanded adaptation of Francois Rabelais's Gargantua (1534), Fischart's novel has often been misjudged as a translation. Josef K.

Glowa challenges this assumption and explores new ways of reading the Geschichtklitterung by focusing on the relationships between the author, narrator, readers, and fictional world in Fischart's novel. A careful study of the narrator and the narrative strategies uncovers a quantity of hitherto unexamined allusions, connotations, and intertextual references that allow the reader to gain a fresh look at an exciting literary masterpiece most worthy of being examined in its own terms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-159) and index.