Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - 20th Century

Der vorliegende Band setzt sich mit dem Werk Franz Kafkas unter dem Aspekt des Zusammenhangs von Komposition und Erkenntnis auseinander. Der Fokus liegt auf der Untersuchung von Handlung, Figurenkonstellationen und Perspektiven sowie deren vielfältigen Vernetzungen in den Erzählwelten des Dichters, wie sie sich in narrativen Kleinstformen, Briefen oder auch den abgeschlossenen Erzählungen und Romanen aufspannen. Neben Kafkas eigenen Erzähltexten werden in diesem Sinne auch Beziehungen zu Autoren aus seinem breiteren literarischen und kulturellen Umfeld untersucht: von der Bibel über...

How did female German-Jewish writers negotiate issues of femininity, Jewishness, and urban experience at the beginning of the 20th century? Godela Weiss-Sussex describes the evolution of multi-dimensional portrayals of the personal and societal place of the "German Jewish woman" in these intersecting discourses. She combines this with an analysis of the aesthetic and communicative structures of the texts, making visible the strategies these writers used to attract a wide readership and the literary and intellectual traditions in which they placed themselves.

The depiction of another person's consciousness is often regarded as the key characteristic of fictional narrative. Is it true, though, that factual narrative avoids presenting alien consciousness? This question is the focus of the present study. Using a computer-assisted diachronic narratological approach, the author analyzes a corpus of five coming-of-age novels and five biographies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates...