LEADER 03290oam 22005534a 450 001 9910552765203321 005 20210915042704.0 010 $a0-8142-7378-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000410323 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001457750 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12549524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001457750 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11457130 035 $a(PQKB)10945366 035 $a(OCoLC)903985643 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42219 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000410323 100 $a20141125h20152014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator$eReckoning with Past and Present in German Literature /$fKatra A. Byram 210 $aColumbus $cOhio State University Press$d[2015] 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aTheory and interpretation of narrative 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8142-1276-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature, Katra A. Byram proposes a new category-the dynamic observer form-to describe a narrative situation that emerges when stories about others become an avenue to negotiate a narrator's own identity across past and present. Focusing on German-language fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Byram demonstrates how the dynamic observer form highlights historical tensions and explores the nexus of history, identity, narrative, and ethics in the modern moment. Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator contributes to scholarship on both narrative theory and the historical and cultural context of German and Austrian literary studies. Narrative theory, according to Byram, should understand this form to register complex interactions between history and narrative form. Byram also juxtaposes new readings of works by Textor, Storm, and Raabe from the nineteenth century with analyses of twentieth-century works by Grass, Handke, and Sebald, ultimately reframing our understanding of literary Vergangenheitsbewa;ltigung, or the struggle to come to terms with the past. Overall, Byram shows that neither the problem of reckoning with the past nor the dynamic observer form is unique to Germany's post-WWII era. Both are products of the dynamics of modern identity, surfacing whenever critical change separates what was from what is. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature and history$zGermany 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. 615 0$aLiterature and history 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a833.009 686 $aLIT004170$2bisacsh 700 $aByram$b Katra A.$f1975-$01214141 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552765203321 996 $aEthics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator$92803903 997 $aUNINA