Narrative Structure and the Reader in Wilhelm Raabe's «Im Alten Eisen» (German Studies in America) - Hardcover

Lensing, Leo A.

 
9783261021281: Narrative Structure and the Reader in Wilhelm Raabe's «Im Alten Eisen» (German Studies in America)

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The author examines the relationship between the narrator and the reader in Wilhelm Raabe's Im alten Eisen (1887) both as an aspect of narrative structure and as a reflection of social and cultural criticism. Using W. Iser's concept of the «implied reader», the interpretation progresses from an investigation of Raabe's actual readers to a Im alten Eisen is linked to its unusual synthesis of the fairy-tale and the novelistic genres and to its parody of the family-journal novels of E. Marlitt.

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