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From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction: A Contribution to the History of Literary Self-Reflexivity in its Philosophical Context

From Romantic Irony to Postmodernist Metafiction: A Contribution to the History of Literary Self-Reflexivity in its Philosophical Context

Quendler, Christian

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Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn, Book 382

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 363136718X
ISBN13: 9783631367186
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 20 2001
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This study represents a comparison between two radical gestures of literary self-reflexivity: romantic irony and postmodernist metafiction. It examines the impact of early German romantic theory and its central concept of irony on German and English romantic narrative fiction and relates the same to postmodernist self-reflexive novels, including its British and American variants. A primary objective of this comparison is to account for the radical skepticism that postmodernist metafiction voices with respect to the paramount philosophical question of truth and reality. The immanent tension between an absolute idealistic and a radically skeptic position which romantic irony articulates and enacts is conceived of as an important and instructive link to the understanding of postmodernism.

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