The German Picaro and Modernity - Between Underdog and Shape-Shifter

Zusammenfassung A study of the modern German picaresque tradition. It argues that the picaresque! whose origins date back to the Spanish Renaissance and the Baroque Age! re-emerged as a reflection both of Germany's explosive modernizing processes between 1880 and 1930 and of the most barbarous implosion of modern civilization under National Socialism.

Product details

• Authors: Bernhard Malkmus
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781441146151
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-4615-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: New Directions in German Studies; New Directions in German Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies