Acts of Narrative: Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction

by Patrick O'Neill

Because German literary criticism tends to be strongly historicist in character, modern and postmodern German narrative has remained relatively unexplored by poststructuralist critics. In the eight individual analyses of twentieth-century German texts that make up this book, Patrick O'Neill deviates from the theoretical mainstream. O'Neill applies the principles of structuralist and poststructuralist narratology to a selection of narratives from both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802009824
• ISBN13: 9780802009821
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher