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Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Tobias Boes; Cornell University Library is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) about?

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. In __Formative Fictions__, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe’s __Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship__, Karl Leberecht Immermann’s __The Epigones__, Gustav Freytag’s __Debit and Credit__

Who reads Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought)?

Author

Tobias Boes; Cornell University Library

Publisher

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801465215

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism