The Ordinaryin the Novel of German Modernism

1. Erstauflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-89528-830-2
Verlag: Aisthesis

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 206 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

Reihe: Münstersche Arbeiten zur Internationalen Literatur

This study reveals the analytical agenda through which Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung trace the social and political aspects of the everyday. By foregrounding modes of conduct that are common, deindividualized, and environmentally attuned, these three modernist novels present the ordinary as the foundational structure of human behavior.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sieg, Christian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Acknowledgments

* Introduction

* I. Reconsidering the Ordinary: Between Reproduction and Creativity

* II. Reading the Surface: Siegfried Kracauer and the Ornaments of the Ordinary

* III. Listening to the Ordinary: Alfred Döblin’s Modernist Encyclopedia of Practical Knowledge

* IV. The Promise of the Ordinary: Elias Canetti’s Novel between Satire and Existential Analysis

* V. Beyond the Negativity of Form: Concluding Remarks on the Analytic Dimension of the Modernist Novel

* Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Sieg holds a research position at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and teaches in the Department of German Studies at the University of Münster. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2008.