From Kafka to Sebald : modernism and narrative form ./

Introduction; Sabine Wilke:; Kafka, Modernism, and Beyond; I: Kafka's Slippages; Stanley Corngold: ; Ritardando in Das Schlos; Imke Meyer:; Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" as Allegory of Bourgeois Subject Construction; II: Kafka Effects; Jens Rieckmann:; Hofmannsthal after 1918: The Present as Exile; Rolf Goebel:; Yvan Goll's Die Eurokokke: a Reading Through Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk; III: Narrative Theory; Gail Finney:; Else Meets Dora: Narratology as a Tool for Illuminating Literary Trauma; Heidi Schlipphacke:; "Das kleine Ich": Robert Menasse and Masculinity in Real Time; Judith R. Ryan:; Sebald's Encounters with French Narrative; IV: Autobiography; Lorna Martens:; Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Childhood Autobiography: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster; Walter H. Sokel:; Provisional Existence.

"This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist Read more...