Lyon / Tucker Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-466-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 201, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyon, John B.

Tucker, Brian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tucker, Brian

Thomas, Christian

Malakaj, Ervin

Yanacek, Holly A.

Bade, James N.

Lyon, John B.

Engler-Coldren, Katharina Adeline

Tatlock, Lynne

Michael White, Michael

Passavant, Nicolas von

Berman, Russell A.

Kontje, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).