Between underdog and shape-shifter

著者

    • Malkmus, Bernhard F.

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Between underdog and shape-shifter

Bernhard F. Malkmus

（New directions in German studies, 1 . The German pícaro and modernity ; v. 2）

Continuum, c2011

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-213) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The German Pcaro 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 Germanys 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

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Boxing (In) Life Stories
  • Chapter One
  • The Spanish Picaresque Tradition and Its European Repercussions
  • Chapter Two
  • "Students Who Have Lost the Holy Writ": Franz Kafka's Der Verschollene
  • Chapter Three
  • "Students Who Have Lost Their Teachers: Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten
  • Picaresque Topoi I
  • Tertium Datur: Between Autonomy and Self-Preservation
  • Chapter Four
  • The Confidence Man as Shape-Shifter: Thomas Mann's Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
  • Picaresque Topoi II
  • Third Space: A Stage for the Modern Picaro
  • Chapter Five
  • The Shape-Shifter as Underdog: Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur
  • Picaresque Topoi III
  • Third Agents: The Inclusion of the Excluded
  • Chapter Six
  • The Eternal Recurrence of the Picaresque Body: Gunter Grass' Die Blechtrommel
  • Conclusion
  • Drumming (Out) Life Stories
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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