Johann Fischart's «Geschichtklitterung» A Study of the Narrator and Narrative Strategies |
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Author:
| Glowa, Josef K. |
Series title: | Renaissance and Baroque Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8204-4260-0 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $89.50 |
Book Description:
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This book is a new interpretation of Johann Fischart's
Geschichtklitterung (1590), one of the most outstanding and puzzling works of German literature in the second half of the sixteenth century. As a greatly expanded adaptation of François Rabelais's Gargantua (1534), Fischart's novel has often been misjudged as a translation. Josef K. Glowa challenges this assumption and explores new ways of reading the
Geschichtklitterung by focusing on the relationships between the...
More DescriptionThis book is a new interpretation of Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung (1590), one of the most outstanding and puzzling works of German literature in the second half of the sixteenth century. As a greatly expanded adaptation of François Rabelais's Gargantua (1534), Fischart's novel has often been misjudged as a translation. Josef K. Glowa challenges this assumption and explores new ways of reading the Geschichtklitterung by focusing on the relationships between the author, narrator, readers, and fictional world in Fischart's novel. A careful study of the narrator and the narrative strategies uncovers a quantity of hitherto unexamined allusions, connotations, and intertextual references that allow the reader to gain a fresh look at an exciting literary masterpiece most worthy of being examined in its own terms.