Acts of narrative : textual strategies in modern German fiction / / Patrick O'Neill

• Autore: O'Neill Patrick <1945->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996; ©1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 833/.910923
• Soggetto topico: German fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Deutsch
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.; 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Acts of narrative
• ISBN: 1-282-00948-6; 9786612009488; 1-4426-7060-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818577403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory/culture series.