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Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung: A Study of the Narrator and Narrative Strategies: 27 (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts) - Hardcover
This book is a new interpretation of Johann Fischart's 'Geschichtklitterung' (1590), one of the most outstanding and puzzling works of German literature in the second half of the sixteenth century. As a greatly expanded adaptation of François Rabelais's Gargantua (1534), Fischart's novel has often been misjudged as a translation. Josef K. Glowa challenges this assumption and explores new ways of reading the 'Geschichtklitterung' by focusing on the relationships between the author, narrator, readers, and fictional world in Fischart's novel. A careful study of the narrator and the narrative strategies uncovers a quantity of hitherto unexamined allusions, connotations, and intertextual references that allow the reader to gain a fresh look at an exciting literary masterpiece most worthy of being examined in its own terms.
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«This book skillfully explores the tensions between inner being and social self that permeate Fischart's 'Geschichtklitterung'. Josef K. Glowa traces in particular the linguistic and rhetorical strategies that enable Fischart to blend together swirls of competing social and cultural discourses. Glowa's scholarship illuminates a fascinating sixteenth-century text that deserves to be better known.» (Michel-Andre Bossy, Professor of Comparative Literatures, Brown University)
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The Author: Josef K. Glowa received his Ph.D. in German studies from Brown University. He has lived and taught in Germany, France, Cape Verde, and in the United States. He is Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
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- PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0820442607
- ISBN 13 9780820442600
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages164
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Book Description A Study of the Narrator and Narrative Strategies. Fischart?s novel has often been misjudged as a translation. Focusing on the relationships between the author, narrator, readers, and fictional world in Fischart?s novel, Glowa uncovers a quantity of allusions, connotations, and intertextual references and thus provides a new interpretation of the work, demonstrating the text as a literary masterpiece most worthy of being examined in its own terms. 164 Seiten, gebunden (Renaissance and Baroque. Studies and Texts; Vol. 27/Peter Lang Verlag 2000) Mängelexemplar/near mint. Statt EUR 55,95 368 g. Sprache: en. Seller Inventory # 2280
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