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dc.contributor.authorHart, Gail K.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-23T07:42:20Z
dc.date.available2020-06-23T07:42:20Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.identifierONIX_20200623_9781469656779_107
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39859
dc.description.abstractThis study seeks to alter our understanding of Keller’s realism by problematizing the act of reading within fiction. The story of reading in Keller’s fiction is a self-conscious meditation on the schism between life and its literary representation—and it emphasizes the incapacity of that representation to actually and substantially influence the life it is based on. This has consequences for the didactic writer. The act of reading here generally involves a collision between fiction and its other and a move (or tragic failure to move) toward an acceptance and affirmation of the non-correspondence between life and literature, a process that renders moral didacticism a quixotic project. This position runs counter to the prevailing view of Keller as a consciously didactic author who tried to create a credible copy of reality in order to revise and repair the real world by inspiring readers to make the depicted improvements in their nonfictional universe.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related itemsen_US
dc.subject.otherGerman Studies
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.titleReaders and Their Fictions in the Novels and Novellas of Gottfried Keller
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5149/9781469656779_Hart
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy29b4cf74-8c0a-422f-9d27-e862ca722861
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oapen.relation.isFundedBy0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1
oapen.series.number109
oapen.pages160
oapen.place.publicationChapel Hill
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oapen.grant.programHumanities Open Book Program
oapen.grant.programHumanities Open Book Program


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