Social Integration and Narrative Structure: Patterns of Realism in Auerbach, Freytag, Fontane and Raabe by Nancy Kaiser, Nancy A Kaiser (Paperback, 1986)
Defining realism as a category of literary communication, this study delineates three distinct patterns of reader experience within 19th-century German Realism. In considering the interaction of text and reader as constructing the world which a realistic vel is often said to reflect or describe, the author coordinates an analysis of the social systems constituted within the texts with a consideration of the narrative structure. The first pattern connects village tales by Auerbach with Freytag's Soll und Haben. A second pattern of reader experience, demonstrated in three vels by Fontane, exposes and manipulates the mechanisms of social integration. The final pattern, two works from Raabe's Braunschweig Trilogy, undermines the middle-class reality it evokes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
082040327x
ISBN-13
9780820403274
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178106428
Product Key Features
Author
Nancy a Kaiser, Nancy Kaiser
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Issn
0172-3529
Series Part/Volume Number
23
First Published
1986
Series Title
New York University Ottendorfer Series
Date of Publication
31/12/1986
Country of Publication
United States
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