Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels

Klappentext This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order to demonstrate that his œouvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Poesie and Prosa; 3. Ellernklipp and Effi Briedt; 4. Irrungen, Wirrungen; 5. Unwiederbringlich; 6. Frau Jenny Treibel; 7. Die Poggenpuhls; 8. Der Stechlin; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Bance, Bance Alan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521155038
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15503-8
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 220 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Anglica Germanica Series 2; Print on Demand; Anglica Germanica Series 2
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form