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Space in Theodor Fontane's Works: Theme and Poetic Function

Space in Theodor Fontane's Works: Theme and Poetic Function

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Series: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, Book 82

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1907322981
ISBN13: 9781907322983
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Apr 16 2012
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), Germany's most important Realist, have long been appreciated for the symbolism of their represented worlds. In this study, Michael White examines the significance of space and spatial experience across Fontane's oeuvre, providing analyses of non-fiction prose and less well-known novels, alongside major works and poetry. The study reveals not only a complex and varied spatial symbolism, but also that space itself is a thematic concern in Fontane's writing. His texts portray human beings' relationships with their worlds, and how and to what end they invest their environment with meaning. Fontane's novels and travel writings emerge as profoundly reflexive discourses on art and its function for the individual.

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