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Flames of Passion, Flames of Greed: Acts of Arson in German Prose Fiction, 1850-1900

Flames of Passion, Flames of Greed: Acts of Arson in German Prose Fiction, 1850-1900

Daemmrich, Horst
Lewis, Virginia L.

Hardcover

Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Book 2

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0820415006
ISBN13: 9780820415000
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Oct 1 1991
Pages: 251
Language: English
This well-written, lively, concise and meticulously executed study establishes five basic models of thematic representation of arson in literature. By selecting texts from a wide spectrum that covers not only well-known works by Auerbach, Raabe, and Anzengruber, but also best-sellers of the nineteenth century that are no longer accessible, Professor Lewis succeeds in demonstrating that dominant thematic patterns and motif clusters foster schematized action sequences in works not usually grouped together by literary historians. In addition, the study shows that a unique social change (introducing fire insurance) and the resulting deviant behavior (arson for profit) are not simply mirrored in literature, but subsumed by previously existing thematic constellations.

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