Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

Name: Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
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ISBN: 9780521483926

ISBN-10: 0521483921

ISBN-13: 9780521483926

Edition: 2004

Authors: Graham Bartram, Philip Payne

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Theodor Fontane, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, and Gunther Grass are among the writers examined in this comprehensive introduction to the development of the German novel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion conveys the vitality and complexity of the modern German novel, and the debates surrounding it.

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Chronology


Preface


A note concerning translations and bibliographical data



The German novel in the long twentieth century Graham Bartram



Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present Lynn Abrams



The novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire Alan Bance



Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers




Franz Kafka: the radical modernist Stanley Corngold



Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain




Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s




Images of the city Burton Pike



Women writers in the Weimar era Elizabeth Boa



The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel Michael Minden



The German novel during the Third Reich Ronald Speirs



History, memory, fiction after the Second World War Dagmar Barnouw



Aesthetics and resistance:




The kleiner Mann and modern times - from Fallada to Walser Anthony Waine



The 'critical' novel in the GDR Patricia Herminghouse



Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke Michael Butler



Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s Allyson Fiddler



The German postmodern novel Paul Michael Lï¿½tzeler.