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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Boes, Tobias (1976-....)
Titre(s) : Formative fictions [Texte imprimé] : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / Tobias Boes
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012
Description matérielle : X-201 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Lien à la collection : Signale (Ithaca)
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-191) and index
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 'Formative Fictions', Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of
the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging
critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth
century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity
as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among
their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders,
" identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime
of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously
hesitant endings of so many novels of formation
Sujet(s) : Roman d'éducation européen
Littérature comparée -- Allemande et européenne
Cosmopolitisme littéraire -- Europe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780801478031 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0801478030 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780801451775 (hbk.). - ISBN 0801451779 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435598512
Notice n° :
FRBNF43559851
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