Theodor Fontane and the European Context
Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-90-420-1236-3 (ISBN)
Description
On the centenary of Fontane's death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars from different countries and disciplines, they focus on novels and theatre reviews from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, comparative literature and translation theory, and in the contexts of topography and painting. Connections and crosscurrents emerge to reveal new aspects of Fontane's poetics and to produce contrasting but complementary readings of his novels. He appears in the company of predecessors and contemporaries, such as Scott, Thackeray, Saar, Ibsen, Turgenev, but also in that of writers he has rarely, if ever, been seen beside, such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Trollope, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Beckett and Faulkner. The historical novel and the social position of women are each a recurring focus of interest. Fontane emerges as receptive to other voices, as a precursor of developments in modern narrative, and confirmed as the novelist who brings the nineteenth-century German novel closest to the broad traditions of European realism.
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"...interesting, stimulating, and useful." in: The Modern Language Review 98.4, 2003, pp. 1053-4More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1236-3 (9789042012363)
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Content
Preface
Ruediger GOERNER: Fontane and the European Context: Introduction
Renate BOESCHENSTEIN: Fontane's Writing and the Problem of "Reality" in Philosophy and Literature
Norbert BACHLEITNER: Of Grieving Girls and Suicidal Soldiers: Theodor Fontane and Ferdinand von Saar
Peter James BOWMAN: Schach von Wuthenow : Interpreters and Interpretants
Yves CHEVREL: Theodor Fontane and France: A Problematic Encounter
Hans ESTER: Problems of Translation, Arising from the Context of Fontane's Works
Barbara EVERETT: Night Air: Effi Briest and other Novels by Fontane
Inga-Stina EWBANK: Hedda Gabler, Effi Briest and "The Ibsen Effect"
Hans VILMAR GEPPERT: Prussian Decadence: Schach von Wuthenow in an International Context
Barbara HARDY: Tellers and Listeners in Effi Briest
Patricia HOWE: "A visibly-appointed stopping-place": Narrative Endings at the End of the Century
Helmut KUZMICS: Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie in Late Nineteenth-century Prussia and England: Comparing Processes of Individualisation in Fontane and Trollope
Jacques LEGRAND: Fontane and Stendhal: Mediators of a European Idea of Intellectual Nobility
W.J. Mc CORMACK: Haunted Realism: Beckett through Fontane
Domenico MUGNOLO: Theodor Fontane and the Nineteenth-century Italian Novel: A Contrastive Comparison
Teresa MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA: Fontane's Effi Briest and Eca de Queiros's O Primo Bazilio: Two Novels of Adultery in the Context of European Realism
Alexander STILLMARK: Fontane and Turgenev: Two Kinds of Realism
Godela WEISS-SUSSEX: Fontane's and Georg Hermann's Berlin: Relationships with Contemporary Berlin Painting
Maite ZUBIAURRE: Panoramic Views in Fontane, Galdos and Clarin: An Essay on Female Blindness
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Ruediger GOERNER: Fontane and the European Context: Introduction
Renate BOESCHENSTEIN: Fontane's Writing and the Problem of "Reality" in Philosophy and Literature
Norbert BACHLEITNER: Of Grieving Girls and Suicidal Soldiers: Theodor Fontane and Ferdinand von Saar
Peter James BOWMAN: Schach von Wuthenow : Interpreters and Interpretants
Yves CHEVREL: Theodor Fontane and France: A Problematic Encounter
Hans ESTER: Problems of Translation, Arising from the Context of Fontane's Works
Barbara EVERETT: Night Air: Effi Briest and other Novels by Fontane
Inga-Stina EWBANK: Hedda Gabler, Effi Briest and "The Ibsen Effect"
Hans VILMAR GEPPERT: Prussian Decadence: Schach von Wuthenow in an International Context
Barbara HARDY: Tellers and Listeners in Effi Briest
Patricia HOWE: "A visibly-appointed stopping-place": Narrative Endings at the End of the Century
Helmut KUZMICS: Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie in Late Nineteenth-century Prussia and England: Comparing Processes of Individualisation in Fontane and Trollope
Jacques LEGRAND: Fontane and Stendhal: Mediators of a European Idea of Intellectual Nobility
W.J. Mc CORMACK: Haunted Realism: Beckett through Fontane
Domenico MUGNOLO: Theodor Fontane and the Nineteenth-century Italian Novel: A Contrastive Comparison
Teresa MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA: Fontane's Effi Briest and Eca de Queiros's O Primo Bazilio: Two Novels of Adultery in the Context of European Realism
Alexander STILLMARK: Fontane and Turgenev: Two Kinds of Realism
Godela WEISS-SUSSEX: Fontane's and Georg Hermann's Berlin: Relationships with Contemporary Berlin Painting
Maite ZUBIAURRE: Panoramic Views in Fontane, Galdos and Clarin: An Essay on Female Blindness
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors