Papers from the Conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002: German literature, history and the nationP. Lang, 2004 - Europe, German-speaking |
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52 53 values seemed to Fontane to exist at the cost of any interest in the complexities of the past in their own right . Fontane's own historical novel , Vor dem Sturm , is set in the winter before the War of Liberation in 1812/13 . Fontane ...
52 53 values seemed to Fontane to exist at the cost of any interest in the complexities of the past in their own right . Fontane's own historical novel , Vor dem Sturm , is set in the winter before the War of Liberation in 1812/13 . Fontane ...
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... Fontane's refusal to bow to the expectations of critics is , as John Osborne suggests , an aesthetic choice related to his rejection of the nationalist tone of the type of historical novel which Die Ahnen represents . Readers expected ...
... Fontane's refusal to bow to the expectations of critics is , as John Osborne suggests , an aesthetic choice related to his rejection of the nationalist tone of the type of historical novel which Die Ahnen represents . Readers expected ...
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... Fontane acknowledged in his review the power that a popular literary text has in determining the values held by a reader . In response to Freytag's anti - Semitism , Fontane points out that there are only two paths that German society ...
... Fontane acknowledged in his review the power that a popular literary text has in determining the values held by a reader . In response to Freytag's anti - Semitism , Fontane points out that there are only two paths that German society ...
Contents
List of illustrations | 8 |
Simon Ward | 13 |
Imagined Communities | 15 |
Copyright | |
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