Paul Fleming

Gebundenes Buch

Exemplarity and Mediocrity

The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism

Beschreibung

Exemplarity and Mediocrity explores the strategies modern German literature employed to increasingly attune itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while at the same time avoiding all notions of mediocre quality.

Autor

Paul Fleming is Associate Professor of German at New York University. He is the author of The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780804758901
• ISBN-10: 0804758905
• Artikelnr.: 24772633