Allegories of format : a media history of Gottfried Keller's unlikely oeuvre /

"The subject of this book is the significance of formatting norms to the literature of the nineteenth-century Swiss author Gottfried Keller. The book examines three formats of growing prominence in Keller's media culture: the collected-works edition, the document, and the periodical, while...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maskarinec, Malika (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2025.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Allegories of format
  • Life and work in Der grüne Heinrich
  • The death of the author: premature burial in Keller's poetry
  • On the uses and abuses of writing in "Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe"
  • From the office: doodling while documenting
  • The male gaze, serialized: Das Sinngedicht
  • Allegorical closure in the Züricher Novellen
  • Epigonal dwarfs.