New Approaches to Theodor Fontane

Download or read book New Approaches to Theodor Fontane written by Marion Villmar-Doebeling and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Fontane scholarship has primarily focused on the "objective" portrayal of nineteenth-century German/Prussian culture and on the authenticity with which his work supposedly mirrors social reality, this collection investigates rhetorical and communicative patterns in his works that call this mirroring effect into question, emphasizing the difficulty - and ultimate impossibility - of "realist" representation."--BOOK JACKET.