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From Kafka to Sebald by Sabine Wilke, ISBN-13: 978-1628928624
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- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic; NIP edition (September 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- 196 pages
- ISBN-10: 162892862X
- ISBN-13: 978-1628928624
This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume’s essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Schnitzler, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Kafka, Modernism, and Beyond
Sabine Wilke, University of Washington, USA
I: Kafka’s Slippages
Ritardando in Das
Stanley Corngold, Princeton University, USA
Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” as Allegory of Bourgeois Subject Construction
Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
II: Kafka Effects
Hofmannsthal after 1918: The Present as Exile
Jens Rieckmann, University of California, Irvine, USA
Yvan Goll’s Die Eurokokke: a Reading Through Walter Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk
Rolf Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
III: Narrative Theory
Else Meets Dora: Narratology as a Tool for Illuminating Literary Trauma
Gail Finney, University of California, Davis, USA
“Das kleine Ich”: Robert Menasse and Masculinity in Real Time
Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Sebald’s Encounters with French Narrative
Judith R. Ryan, Harvard University, USA
IV: Autobiography
Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Childhood Autobiography: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster
Lorna Martens, University of Virginia, USA
Provisional Existence
Walter H. Sokel, USA
Sabine Wilke is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where she is also associated with European Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. Her research and teaching interests include modern German literature and culture, intellectual history and theory, and cultural studies. She has written books and articles on body constructions in modern German literature and culture, German unification, the history of German film and theater, contemporary German authors and filmmakers, German colonialism and the overlapping concerns of postcolonialism and ecocriticism.
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