TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boes,Tobias
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Formative Fictions : : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / 
T2  - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
SN  - 9780801465215
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Europa
KW  - gnd
KW  - Bildungsroman
KW  - Nationalism and literature
KW  - fast
KW  - German fiction
KW  - European fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - Vie urbaine dans la litterature
KW  - Nationalisme et litterature
KW  - Roman europeen
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Roman allemand
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - European and German
KW  - German and European
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time; Open Access
N2  - The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation, " has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In 'Formative Fictions', Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders, " identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24205/
ER  -