John Walker

The Truth of Realism

A Reassessment of the German Novel 1830-1900

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the power of narrative realism as a critique of the ideology of inwardness in the German-speaking world. It answers the question: What kind of truth about reality does German literary realism enable us to see, and what kind of transformation does that vision require and effect?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367603533
• ISBN-10: 0367603535
• Artikelnr.: 60074142

Autorenporträt

John Walker

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Realism
the Narrative Self
and the Legacy of German Idealism 2. Representing the Real: Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich 3. Refusing the Real: Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor 4. German Realism after 1870: Literature
Philosophy
and Human Selfhood 5. Wilhelm Raabe
Pfisters Mühle the Reality of Inwardness 6. Wilhelm Raabe
Die Akten des Vogelsangs the End of Inwardness 7. Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest Realism
Empathy
and Identity 8. Theodor Fontane
Irrungen
Wirrungen Realism and Transfiguration 9. The Limited Whole: The Realism of History in Der Stechlin and Vor dem Sturm 10. Conclusion