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1 online resource (viii, 239 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The case of Werther and the institution of literature -- "Observe, write!" : histories of observation and the psychological novel Anton Reiser -- Hot and cold : history, casuistry, and literature in Schiller and Kleist -- Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the problem of legal responsibility -- The drama of the case : making the case of Woyzeck -- Drama, anecdote, case : Wedekind's Lulu -- Freud's cases -- Fantasy of facts : Döblin's poetics of uncertainty -- The man of possibilities : Musil's Moosbrugger. |
| Summary |
"This book shows that narrative literature beginning in the late 18th century works out a mode of representing individual cases that exceeds singularity and novelty but stops short of generality and moral didacticism. Two essential questions guide the author's work here: How does this new literature contribute to the establishment of casuistic forms that since the 18th century have been involved in the formation of psychological knowledge and legal decision making? And how, inversely, does the case history contribute to the formation of literary and aesthetic discourses? In answering these questions for the German-language canon, this book contributes to the understanding of how we came to attribute to literature special formative and critical qualities that until today define our cultural self-conception"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
German prose literature -- History and criticism.
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German prose literature. |
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German prose literature -- Sources.
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Case studies in literature.
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Case studies in literature. |
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Literature and morals -- Germany -- History.
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Literature and morals. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Höcker, Arne. The case of literature Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020. 9781501749353 (DLC) 2019032677 |
| ISBN |
9781501749377 electronic book |
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1501749382 electronic book |
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9781501749384 electronic book |
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1501749374 electronic book |
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9781501749353 hardcover |
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9781501749360 paperback |
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