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O'Neill Patrick <1945-> |
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Acts of narrative : textual strategies in modern German fiction / / Patrick O'Neill |
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Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-00948-6 |
9786612009488 |
1-4426-7060-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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German fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
Deutsch |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Death in Venice : narrative situations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig -- Trial : paradigms of indeterminacy in Franz Kafka's Der Prozess -- Harry Haller's records : the ludic imagination in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf -- Auto da fe : reading misreading in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung -- Tin Drum : implications of unrealibility in Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel -- Two views : the authority of discourse in Uwe Johnson's Zwei Ansichten -- Goalie's anxiety : signs and semiosis in Peter Handke's Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter -- Lime works : narrative and noise in Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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O'Neill's approach rests on three assumptions: first, that all stories are stories told in particular ways; second, that these particular ways of telling stories are interesting objects of study in and for themselves; and third, that modern German fiction includes a number of narratives that allow us to indulge that interest in ways that are themselves |
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compelling. The relationship of story and discourse is central to Acts of Narrative; in particular, each of the texts under analysis continually foregrounds the active role of the reader, which O'Neill sees as an inescapable feature of modern and postmodern narrative as a semiotic structure. The volume might be described as an exercise in semiotic narratology, exploring a variety of aspects of the semiotics of narrative as a discursive system. |
Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill deviates from the theoretical mainstream. O'Neill applies the principles of structuralist and poststructuralist narratology to a selection of narratives from both modernist and postmodernist German authors: Mann, Kafka, and Hesse, and Canetti, Johnson, Handke, and Bernhard. |
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