Glowa, Josef K.
Description
This book is a new interpretation of Johann Fischart’s Geschichtklitterung (1590), one of the most outstanding and puzzling works of German literature
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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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Genres
Literary Fiction
Tags
Narration (Rhetoric)
Reading Moods
Romantic & Emotional
Adventurous & Action-Packed
Contributors
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Publishing Info
Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Month-Year
Jul, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780820442600
ISBN-10: 0820442607
Language
English
No. of Pages
164
Format
Hardcover
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