Thomas Mann's Felix Krull and the Traditions of the Picaresque Novel and the Bildungsroman
Author: Michael Beddow
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 618
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Art and Its Uses in Thomas Mann's Felix Krull
Author: Ernest Schonfield
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1905981058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Mann's Felix Krull, written between 1910-13 and continued (though never completed) in 1951-54, uses contemporary accounts of these figures as a starting-point from which to explore the aesthetics of society. The early Krull marks an important stage in Mann's development in a number of respects.In writing it, Mann acquired a more flexible conception of identity and a new understanding of the relation between artist and public. Krull also signals a deeper engagement with Goethe and a shift in Mann's work towards a more open treatment of sexuality. The novel presents art as being central to the development of the individual and to social interaction. While Krull is nominally a confidence man, he is more of a performance artist, a purveyor of beauty who relies upon the complicity of his audience. The later Krull takes up where Mann left off and continues the justification of art as an essential human activity. This study draws upon unpublished material in order to provide a comprehensive reading of Felix Krull. It examines the novel within the context of Mann's work as a whole, and, in doing so, it seeks to demonstrate the remarkable continuity of Mann's creative achievement.
The German Picaro and Modernity
Author: Bernhard Malkmus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1628929537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe German Pícaro and Modernity reads the re-emergence of the picaresque narrative in twentieth-century German-language writing as an expression of modernity and its social imaginaries. Malkmus argues that the picaresque, whose origins date back to the Spanish Renaissance and the Baroque Age, re-emerged as a reflection both of Germany's explosive modernizing processes between 1880 and 1930 and of the most barbarous implosion of modern civilization under National Socialism. Another reason for the fertility of this literary form at that particular cultural moment is rooted in the complexities of German-Jewish relations and the history of Jewish assimilation in central Europe. A considerable number of authors who used the picaresque form in the twentieth century are from a Jewish background, and Malkmus demonstrates how the picaresque narrative template also offers a medium for German-Jewish self-reflection. In highlighting these connections, he contributes not only to scholarship in European literature, but also but also to our understanding of major social, economic and political issues at stake in modernity
The Apprenticeship Novel
Author: Randolph P. Shaffner
Publisher: New York : P. Lang
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea that a young person can become adept in the art of life by passing through definite stages, until at last he becomes a master, lives at the core of the apprenticeship novel. Recognized among German critics as the «Bildungsroman», this type of novel has yet to be adequately defined on a grand scale for the English reader despite nearly two centuries of its development. In an attempt to describe the apprenticeship novel as a modifiable type in Western literature, Mr. Shaffner combines a theoretical stance with analyses of three concrete examples drawn from over a hundred potential candidates.
Thomas Mann's Felix Krull and the Traditions of the Picatesque Novel and the Bildungsroman
Author: M. Beddow
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 311
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Author: Bernard Stanley Oldsey
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 116
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 1318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
Artificial I's
Author: Eric Downing
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research. All submitted manuscripts undergo a double peer-review process. Please contact the editor Marcus B hm (marcus.boehm at] degruyter.com) for further information regarding manuscript submission and subsidies.
Modernism and Morality
Author: M. Halliwell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-09-12
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0230502733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.
Reflection and Action
Author: James N. Hardin
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this collection of essays by eminent American & European scholars is to provide an overview of the state of research on the history & theory of the Bildungsromane & our understanding of the term.
