The Brief Compass: The Nineteenth Century German Novelle

by Roger Paulin

The German Novelle-or short prose fiction-was a major literary form in 19th-century Germany. This book studies the roots from which the Novelle sprang-tracing the affinities between the Novelle and the Romance tradition of Boccaccio and Cervantes-important statements on its form and function appear here in appendices-but Paulin's main purpose is to relate the theoretical to the continuity of the genre, to examples written outside Germany, and to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198158106
• ISBN13: 9780198158103
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.3"