{"product_id":"allegories-of-format-a-media-history-of-gottfried-kellers-unlikely-oeuvre-hardback-9781501784064","title":"Allegories of Format; A Media History of Gottfried Keller's Unlikely Oeuvre (Hardback) 9781501784064","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAllegories of Format\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Media History of Gottfried Keller's Unlikely Oeuvre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMalika Maskarinec (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501784064\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e354 pages, 18 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 18 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllegories of Format\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen Henry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDer grüne Heinrich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e Malika Maskarinec understands format as the organization of a media object's relationship to a world of objects and persons; format orders a text's contents or, in the case of literature, what it represents. Maskarinec focuses on three formats of growing prominence in nineteenth-century media culture: the collected-works edition, the document, and the periodical. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe analysis demonstrates that different fictional worlds, characters, and plots in Keller's literary output allegorize the problems that specific print and paper formats pose to literary ideals of literature as an art form and to ideals of creative authorship. As \u003ci\u003eAllegories of Format \u003c\/i\u003eshows, attending to format allows for false antitheses inherited from the nineteenth century to be dismantled - between high and trivial literature, between the singular artwork and mass media products, and between creative literary works and the supposedly uncreative writing practices of office work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is available as an Open Access volume thanks to funding from the University of Bern\/Universität Bern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Life and Work in Der grüne Heinrich\u003cbr\u003e2. The Death of the Author: Premature Burial in Keller's Poetry\u003cbr\u003e3. On the Uses and Abuses of Writing in \"Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe\"\u003cbr\u003e4. From the Office: Doodling while Documenting\u003cbr\u003e5. The Male Gaze, Serialized: Das Sinngedicht\u003cbr\u003e6. Allegorical Closure in the Zricher Novellen\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Epigonal Dwarfs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610560950552,"sku":"9781501784064","price":96.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/allegories-of-format-a-media-history-of-gottfried-kellers-unlikely-oeuvre-hardback-9781501784064","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}