The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.

ISBN 0521483921   Pages 324 ISBN13 9780521483926 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 480 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Series title Cambridge Companions to Literature Publication date 05 Apr 2004   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress PT771 \.C3   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 833.9109   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Notes on contributors
		Preface
		Chronology
		A note concerning translations and bibliographical data
1		The German novel in the long twentieth century by Graham Bartram		1
2		Contexts of the novel : society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present by Lynn Abrams		15
3		The novel in Wilhelmine Germany : from realism to satire by Alan Bance		31
4		Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers : Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn by Ritchie Robertson		46
5		Franz Kafka : the radical modernist by Stanley Corngold		62
6		Modernism and the Bildungsroman : Thomas Mann's Magic mountain by Russell A. Bremen		77
7		Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s : Hermann Broch and Robert Musil by Graham Bartram and Philip Payne		93
8		Images of the city by Burton Pike		110
9		Women writers in the 'Golden' twenties by Elizabeth Boa		123
10		The First World War and its aftermath in the German novel by Michael Minden		138
11		The German novel during the Third Reich by Ronald Speirs		152
12		History, memory, fiction after the Second World War by Dagmar Barnow		167
13		Aesthetics and resistance : Boll, Grass, Weiss by J. H. Reid		187
14		The kleiner Mann and modern times : from Fallada to Walser by Anthony Waine		202
15		The 'critical' novel in the GDR by Patricia Herminghouse		218
16		Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era : Max Frisch and Peter Handke by Michael Butler		232
17		Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s by Allyson Fiddler		249
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'German scholars and those with an interest in German literature in translation will find this Companion both readable and informative about the key themes of literature in German since the late nineteenth century.' Reference Reviews ' ... there is much food for thought here. The contributors' enthusiasm sends one out to explore or rediscover many brilliant and important novels. Every librarian and every academic in the field should be ordering this book, and every student asking for it in her Christmas stocking.' MLR

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