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St. Louis was the fourth largest city in America; the crossroads linking East and West; the jewel of the Mississippi River; a thriving industrial metropolis, where dreams came true and great fortunes were made. Yet, the mighty city had a dark side; the hustle and bustle of Industrial Era growth and prosperity masked a ruthless underworld of vice, corruption and murder. When a brutally murdered corpse is found along the Mississippi, Herbert Falken is called upon, once again, to hunt down another black-hearted monster. However, Falken's quest for the truth is confounded by a relentless...

The first part of the book presents a systematically reasoned typology of the various forms of narrative self-reflection. The second section draws on this typology for a discussion of the various formulations of narrative poetics to be found in the literature in German. A number of detailed analyses of literary works ranging from the beginnings of modern fictional narrative and taking us beyond its self-declared demise up to the immediate present serve as a basis for the discussion of the historical evolution of narrative fiction and its special situation in the 'age of simulation'.

Als Autor von weltliterarischem Rang hat Arthur Schnitzler die Epoche der Klassischen Moderne literarisch äußerst produktiv und mit hochgradiger Sensibilität für ihre Probleme und Widersprüche begleitet. Sein Werk weist eine enorme motivische Bandbreite auf und verknüpft brennpunktartig eine Vielzahl diskursiver Stränge aus der Sozial-, Anthropologie-, Gender-, Denk- und Wissensgeschichte. Das Handbuch führt in Leben und Werk des Autors ein, bespricht alle Werke und beleuchtet kulturhistorische Kontexte, Strukturen, Schreibweisen, Themen und die Rezeption. Die zweite Auflage ist...