Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / Tobias Boes.

The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In...

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Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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505 0 |a The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time. 
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