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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778545603321

Titolo

Alfred Döblin [[electronic resource] ] : paradigms of modernism / / edited by Steffan Davies, Ernest Schonfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009

ISBN

1-282-71674-3

9786612716744

3-11-021770-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)  Alfred Dèoblin

Altri autori (Persone)

DaviesSteffan <1978->

SchonfieldErnest

Disciplina

833/.912

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Metaphysical Speculation and the Fascination of the Real: On the Connections between Döblin's Philosophical Writings and his Fiction before Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Die Geburt des Döblinismus aus dem Geist des Fin de Siècle: Döblins frühe Erzählungen im Spannungsfeld von Ästhetik, Poetik und Medizin -- "Inzwischen gingen seine Füße weiter": Autonome Körperteile in den frühen Erzählungen und medizinischen Essays von Alfred Döblin und Gottfried Benn -- Märchen und Mythen, Mörder und Märtyrer: Alfred Döblins Der Ritter Blaubart und seine synkretistische Montagetechnik -- Zwischen China und Brecht: Masken und Formen der Verfremdung in Döblins Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun -- Writing History: Why Ferdinand der Andere Is Called Wallenstein -- ,Linke Poot hat sich entschlossen zu sprechen': Die poetologische Kooperative der Erzähler "Linke Poot" und "Alfred Döblin" in den Schriften zu Politik und Gesellschaft -- The "Grateful" Traveller: Ways of Seeing in Döblin's Reise in Polen -- "Man hat ihn bekanntlich nie entdeckt": Döblins Das Leben Jacks, des Bauchaufschlitzers oder Autorschaft und Lustmord im Fokus autobiographischer Erinnerung -- "Der ungezogene Liebling der



Grazien". Alfred Döblin und Heinrich Heine: Politische und religiöse Analogien in Leben und Werk -- Alfred Döblin's Feeling for Snow: The Poetry of Fact in Berge Meere und Giganten -- "Der uralte noch immer traumverlorene Erdteil": Die Afrika-Thematik in Alfred Döblins Roman Berge Meere und Giganten -- Nachum der Weise: On Storytelling, Eyes and Misunderstanding in Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Other Places: Döblin's Berlin Topographies -- November 1918: Topography of a Revolution -- Transcendence and the Historical Novel: A Discussion of November 1918 -- Vom Richter-Dichter: Döblins Neubestimmung des Epischen in Der Oberst und der Dichter -- War and Exile in Döblin's Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende -- W. G. Sebald's Reception of Alfred Döblin -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Döblin's texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of 'Tatsachenphantasie', they explode conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Döblin's  interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Döblin's best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical texts. Other topics addressed are Döblin's engagement with German history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Döblin that are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.