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Author:

Malkmus, Bernhard F., 1973-

Title:

The German p©Ưcaro and modernity : between underdog and shape-shifter / Bernhard F. Malkmus.

Publisher:

Continuum,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

ix, 219 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Picaresque literature, German--History and criticism.
German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Rogues and vagabonds in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-213) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Boxing (in) life stories. The Spanish picaresque tradition and Its European repercussions -- "Students who have lost the Holy Writ" : Franz Kafka's Der Verschollene -- Students who have lost their teachers : Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten -- Picaresque topoi I. Tertium datur : between autonomy and self-preservation -- The confidence man as shape-shifter : Thomas Mann's Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull -- Picaresque topoi II. Third space : A stage for the modern picaro -- The shape-shifter as underdog : Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur -- Picaresque topoi III. Third Agents : The inclusion of the excluded -- The eternal recurrence of the picaresque body : G©ơnter Grass' Die Blechtrommel -- Drumming (out) life stories.

Series:

New directions in German studies ; v. 2

ISBN:

1441146156 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781441146151 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)744287220

LCCN:

2011032871

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)