LEADER 04705oam 22008174a 450 001 9910524891703321 005 20210915034627.0 010 $a0-8014-6521-4 010 $a0-8014-5177-9 010 $a0-8014-6565-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801465659 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275557 035 $a(EBL)3138378 035 $a(OCoLC)814705798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000780804 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11418471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780804 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10803227 035 $a(PQKB)11432545 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001504848 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28721 035 $a(DE-B1597)478254 035 $a(OCoLC)961614534 035 $a(OCoLC)979753337 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801465659 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138378 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10612406 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681599 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138378 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275557 100 $a20120418d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFormative Fictions$eNationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" /$fTobias Boes 210 1$aIthaca, N.Y. :$cCornell University Library,$d2012. 210 4$d©2012. 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 225 0 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-50317-6 311 $a0-8014-7803-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Do?blin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time. 330 $aThe Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature.Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation.In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels-Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them-that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aComparative literature$xEuropean and German 606 $aComparative literature$xGerman and European 606 $aCity and town life in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature 606 $aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBildungsromans$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEuropean and German. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGerman and European. 615 0$aCity and town life in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature. 615 0$aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBildungsromans$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.3/9354 700 $aBoes$b Tobias$f1976-$01167496 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524891703321 996 $aFormative Fictions$92719559 997 $aUNINA