A History of the German Novelle

This books analyses of one of the most individual and highly developed genres in German literature up to the early 1960s.

E. K. Bennett (Author), H. M. Waidson (Author)

9780521091527, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 November 1974

332 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

This is a critical account of one of the most individual and highly developed genres in German literature. The novella may be defined as a narrative in prose, usually short, dealing with one striking fateful event and distinguished by careful artistry of presentation. The book begins by analyzing the features which mark off the novelle from its relatives, the novel and short story; it then describes the different forms and structures which the novelle has assumed under the great prosaists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this edition Professor Waidson has extended the account from the period of Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig up to the beginning of the 1960s.

Introductions
1. The novelle as a literary genre
2. The Classical novelle: Goethe
3. The metaphysical novelle: Kleist
4. The Romantic novelle
5(a). The discursive novelle: Ludwig Tieck's later novellen
5(b). The discursive novelle: The Jungdeutschen
6. The novelle of country life
7(a). The novelle of poetic realism: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
7(b). The novelle of poetic realism: Adalbert Stifter
7(c). The novelle of poetic realism: Otto Ludwig
7(d) The novelle of poetic realism: Franz Grillparzer and Eduard Mörike
7(e). The novelle of poetic realism: Theodor Storm
7(f). The novelle of poetic realism: Gottfried Keller
8. The novelle as a substitute for tragedy
9(a). The psychological novelle: Paul Heyse
9(b). The psychological novelle: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
9(c). The psychological novelle: towards the close of the nineteenth century
10. novelle and short story
11. The novelle in the twentieth century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]