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Thomas Mann's World

Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question

By: Todd Curtis Kontje

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Thomas Mann's World

Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question

By: Todd Curtis Kontje

A comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann

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University of Michigan Press

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0472117467

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9780472117468

German Orientalisms

By: Todd Curtis Kontje

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German Orientalisms

By: Todd Curtis Kontje

A fresh examination of the role of the East in the German literary imagination, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present

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University of Michigan Press

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0472113925

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9780472113927

Georg Forster

German Cosmopolitan

By: Todd Kontje

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Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on diverse topics, and numerous letters. This in-depth look at Forster’s work and life reveals his importance for other writers of the age. Todd Kontje traces the major intellectual themes and challenges found in Forster’s writings, interweaving close textual analysis with his rich but short life. Each chapter engages with themes that reflect the current debates in eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, including changing notions of authorship, multilingualism, the representation of so-called primitive societies, Enlightenment ideas about race, and early forms of ecological thinking. As Kontje shows, Forster’s peripatetic life, malleable sense of national identity, and fluency in multiple languages contrast with the image of the solitary genius in the “age of Goethe.” In this way, Forster provides a different model of authorship and citizenship better understood in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Compellingly argued and engagingly written, this book restores Forster to his rightful place within the German literary tradition, and in so doing, it urges us to reconsider the age of Goethe as multilingual and malleable, local and cosmopolitan, dynamic and decentered. It will be welcomed by specialists in German studies and the Enlightenment.

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Penn State Press

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0271093846

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9780271093840

The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

By: Todd Kontje

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The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

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A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.

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Cambridge University Press

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052176792X

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9780521767927

Private Lives in the Public Sphere

The German Bildungsroman as Metafiction

By: Todd Kontje

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Private Lives in the Public Sphere

The German Bildungsroman as Metafiction

By: Todd Kontje

Private Lives in the Public Sphere examines the Bildungsroman in the context of the rapid changes that affected the German literary revolution that made up for its belatedness in its rapidity and scope. The nature and quantity of reading material produced, the social status of the writer, and the reading habits of the public changed dramatically within a few decades. At the beginning of the century the new texts that appeared at the annual book fairs were primarily written in Latin and devoted to theology. By the end of the century the number of new publications each year has increased almost exponentially, with the novel leading the way. This new institution of literature constituted an important part of what J&ürgen Habermas has termed the &"public sphere,&" a forum for public debate in which members of the middle class, although still limited in their direct access to political power, could at least begin to articulate their problems and formulate their hopes. The Bildungsroman emerged during this period. This study focuses on moments of literary self-consciousness in the Bildungsroman as reflections on the rapid transformation of the German literary institution. The novels are viewed as examples of what Patricia Waugh has called &"metafiction,&" that is, &"fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality.&" By concentrating on the interaction between literary form and institutional context in these novels, it becomes possible to mediate between the extremes of those who would view literature as a mere reflection of historical conditions and those who would maintain the purity of the aesthetic object. Literature in this view neither re-creates reality nor does it escape reality; instead, it transforms reality, and the Bildungsroman is the genre that examines this transformation.

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0271039582

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Book's by Todd Curtis Kontje

Thomas Mann's World

Thomas Mann's World

German Orientalisms

German Orientalisms

Georg Forster

Georg Forster

The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

Private Lives in the Public Sphere

Private Lives in the Public Sphere

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