Alfred Döblin
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Alfred Döblin

Paradigms of Modernism

  1. 430 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Döblin's texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of 'Tatsachenphantasie', they explode conventional language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and reevaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary quality of Döblin's interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works. The volume analyses not only some of Döblin's best-known novels and stories, but also neglected works including his early medical essays, political journalism and autobiographical texts. Other topics addressed are Döblin's engagement with German history; his relation to medical discourse; his topography of Berlin; his aestheticisation of his own biography and his relation to other major writers such as Heine, Benn, Brecht and Sebald. With contributions in English and in German by scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume presents insights into Döblin that are of value to advanced researchers and to students alike.

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Yes, you can access Alfred Döblin by Steffan Davies, Ernest Schonfield, Steffan Davies,Ernest Schonfield in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & German Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9783110217698
eBook ISBN
9783110217704

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Metaphysical Speculation and the Fascination of the Real: On the Connections between Döblin’s Philosophical Writings and his Fiction before Berlin Alexanderplatz
  7. Die Geburt des Döblinismus aus dem Geist des Fin de Siècle: Döblins frühe Erzählungen im Spannungsfeld von Ästhetik, Poetik und Medizin
  8. „Inzwischen gingen seine Füße weiter“: Autonome Körperteile in den frühen Erzählungen und medizinischen Essays von Alfred Döblin und Gottfried Benn
  9. Märchen und Mythen, Mörder und Märtyrer: Alfred Döblins Der Ritter Blaubart und seine synkretistische Montagetechnik
  10. Zwischen China und Brecht: Masken und Formen der Verfremdung in Döblins Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun
  11. Writing History: Why Ferdinand der Andere Is Called Wallenstein
  12. ‚Linke Poot hat sich entschlossen zu sprechen‘: Die poetologische Kooperative der Erzähler „Linke Poot“ und „Alfred Döblin“ in den Schriften zu Politik und Gesellschaft
  13. The “Grateful” Traveller: Ways of Seeing in Döblin’s Reise in Polen
  14. „Man hat ihn bekanntlich nie entdeckt“: Döblins Das Leben Jacks, des Bauchaufschlitzers oder Autorschaft und Lustmord im Fokus autobiographischer Erinnerung
  15. „Der ungezogene Liebling der Grazien“. Alfred Döblin und Heinrich Heine: Politische und religiöse Analogien in Leben und Werk
  16. Alfred Döblin’s Feeling for Snow: The Poetry of Fact in Berge Meere und Giganten
  17. „Der uralte noch immer traumverlorene Erdteil“: Die Afrika-Thematik in Alfred Döblins Roman Berge Meere und Giganten
  18. Nachum der Weise: On Storytelling, Eyes and Misunderstanding in Berlin Alexanderplatz
  19. Other Places: Döblin’s Berlin Topographies
  20. November 1918: Topography of a Revolution
  21. Transcendence and the Historical Novel: A Discussion of November 1918
  22. Vom Richter-Dichter: Döblins Neubestimmung des Epischen in Der Oberst und der Dichter
  23. War and Exile in Döblin’s Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende
  24. W. G. Sebald’s Reception of Alfred Döblin
  25. Backmatter