Fontane in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2019
266 pages
978-1-78744-466-9 (ISBN)
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Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.
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John B. Lyon | Brian Tucker
Fontane in the Twenty-First Century
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Tatlock Lynne:
LYNNE TATLOCK is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.Michael White Michael:
MICHAEL WHITE is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in German at St Andrews University. His principal areas of research are in nineteenth-century literature, especially Theodor Fontane and Realism. His publications include: Space in Theodor Fontane's Works: Theme and Poetic Function (MHRA, 2012); Theodor Fontane and Cultural Mediation, co-edited with R. Robertson (Oxford 2015). He has co-edited (with Andrew Cusack) a volume entitled Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes (2021).
LYNNE TATLOCK is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.Michael White Michael:
MICHAEL WHITE is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in German at St Andrews University. His principal areas of research are in nineteenth-century literature, especially Theodor Fontane and Realism. His publications include: Space in Theodor Fontane's Works: Theme and Poetic Function (MHRA, 2012); Theodor Fontane and Cultural Mediation, co-edited with R. Robertson (Oxford 2015). He has co-edited (with Andrew Cusack) a volume entitled Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes (2021).
Content
Acknowledgments
Note on Editions
Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty-First Century - John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker
Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm - Russell A. Berman
Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest - Holly A. Yanacek
Peforming the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera - Nicolas von Passavant
To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen - Brian Tucker
Fontane as a Pacifist? The Anti-War Message in Quitt and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism - James N. Bade
Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel - John B. Lyon
On the "Right Measure" in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic - Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren
Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought - Michael J. White
Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls - Todd Kontje
Von Zwanzig bis Dreissig: The Male Author in Parts - Lynne Tatlock
Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin - Christian Thomas
Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin - Ervin Malakaj
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Note on Editions
Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty-First Century - John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker
Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm - Russell A. Berman
Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest - Holly A. Yanacek
Peforming the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera - Nicolas von Passavant
To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen - Brian Tucker
Fontane as a Pacifist? The Anti-War Message in Quitt and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism - James N. Bade
Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel - John B. Lyon
On the "Right Measure" in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic - Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren
Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought - Michael J. White
Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls - Todd Kontje
Von Zwanzig bis Dreissig: The Male Author in Parts - Lynne Tatlock
Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin - Christian Thomas
Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin - Ervin Malakaj
Notes on the Contributors
Index
