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03181aam a2200469 i 4500 001 0C5CA48271B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210218010021 008 190729t20202020nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019032677 020 $a 1501749366 020 $a 9781501749360 020 $a 1501749358 020 $a 9781501749353 035 $a (OCoLC)1151508760 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a PT721 $b .H63 2020 082 00 $a 830.9 $2 23 100 1 $a HoÂcker, Arne, $e author. 245 14 $a The case of literature : $b forensic narratives from Goethe to Kafka / $c Arne HoÂcker. 264 1 $a Ithaca : $b Cornell University Press : $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 239 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The case of Werther and the institution of literature -- "Observe, write!" : histories of observation and the psychological novel Anton Reiser -- Hot and cold : history, casuistry, and literature in Schiller and Kleist -- Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the problem of legal responsibility -- The drama of the case : making the case of Woyzeck -- Drama, anecdote, case : Wedekind's Lulu -- Freud's cases -- Fantasy of facts : DoÂblin's poetics of uncertainty -- The man of possibilities : Musil's Moosbrugger. 520 $a "This book shows that narrative literature beginning in the late 18th century works out a mode of representing individual cases that exceeds singularity and novelty but stops short of generality and moral didacticism. Two essential questions guide the author's work here: How does this new literature contribute to the establishment of casuistic forms that since the 18th century have been involved in the formation of psychological knowledge and legal decision making? And how, inversely, does the case history contribute to the formation of literary and aesthetic discourses? In answering these questions for the German-language canon, this book contributes to the understanding of how we came to attribute to literature special formative and critical qualities that until today define our cultural self-conception"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a German prose literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a German prose literature $x Sources. 650 0 $a Case studies in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and morals $z Germany $x History. 650 7 $a German prose literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00941953 650 7 $a Literature and morals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000085 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a HoÂcker, Arne. $t Case of literature $d Ithaca : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2020. $z 9781501749377 $w (DLC) 2019032678 830 0 $a Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317014039.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C5CA48271B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search