LEADER 04586nam 2200709 450 001 9910456166303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-00948-6 010 $a9786612009488 010 $a1-4426-7060-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670600 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003802 035 $a(OCoLC)244767455 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000287909 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207950 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000287909 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10373139 035 $a(PQKB)11299814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)420837 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00211099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671165 035 $a(DE-B1597)464154 035 $a(OCoLC)944178538 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671165 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256890 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL200948 035 $a(OCoLC)958564937 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003802 100 $a20160922h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActs of narrative $etextual strategies in modern German fiction /$fPatrick O'Neill 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1996. 210 4$dİ1996 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 1 $aTheory / Culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-0982-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Death in Venice: Narrative Situations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig -- $t2. The Trial: Paradigms of Indeterminacy in Franz Kafka's Der Froze ft -- $t3. Harry Haller's Records: The Ludic Imagination in Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf -- $t4. Auto da fé: Reading Misreading in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung -- $t5. The Tin Drum: Implications of Unreliability in Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel -- $t6. Two Views: The Authority of Discourse in Uwe Johnson's Zwei Ansichten -- $t7. The Goalie's Anxiety: Signs and Semiosis in Peter Handke's Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter -- $t8. The Lime Works: Narrative and Noise in Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk -- $tConclusion -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aBecause German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill deviates from the theoretical mainstream. O'Neill applies the principles of structuralist and poststructuralist narratology to a selection of narratives from both modernist and postmodernist German authors: Mann, Kafka, and Hesse, and Canetti, Grass, Johnson, Handke, and Bernhard.O'Neill's approach rests on three assumptions: first, that all stories are stories told in particular ways; second, that these particular ways of telling stories are interesting objects of study in and for themselves; and third, that modern German fiction includes a number of narratives that allow us to indulge that interest in ways that are themselves compelling. The relationship of story and discourse is central to Acts of Narrative; in particular, each of the texts under analysis continually foregrounds the active role of the reader, which O'Neill sees as an inescapable feature of modern and postmodern narrative as a semiotic structure. The volume might be described as an exercise in semiotic narratology, exploring a variety of aspects of the semiotics of narrative as a discursive system.Acts of Narrative provides a fresh and challenging approach to German literary texts that will interest both those whose concern is narrative theory and critical practice and those who study modern and postmodern German or comparative literature. 410 0$aTheory/culture series. 606 $aGerman fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 676 $a833/.910923 700 $aO'Neill$b Patrick$f1945-$01035309 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456166303321 996 $aActs of narrative$92462989 997 $aUNINA