TY - BOOK
T1 - Space in Theodor Fontane’s Works
T2 - Theme and Poetic Function
AU - White, Michael James
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) have long been appreciated for the symbolism of their represented worlds. In this study, Michael White examines the significance of space and spatial experience across Fontane’s oeuvre, providing analyses of non-fiction prose and less well-known novels, alongside major works and poetry. The study reveals not only a complex and varied spatial symbolism, but also that space itself is a thematic concern in Fontane’s writing. His texts portray human beings’ relationships with their worlds, how and to what end they invest their environments with meaning, and as such emerge as profoundly reflexive discourses on art and its function for the individual.
AB - The novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) have long been appreciated for the symbolism of their represented worlds. In this study, Michael White examines the significance of space and spatial experience across Fontane’s oeuvre, providing analyses of non-fiction prose and less well-known novels, alongside major works and poetry. The study reveals not only a complex and varied spatial symbolism, but also that space itself is a thematic concern in Fontane’s writing. His texts portray human beings’ relationships with their worlds, how and to what end they invest their environments with meaning, and as such emerge as profoundly reflexive discourses on art and its function for the individual.
KW - Fontane, Realism, Literary Space, Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg, Vor dem Sturm, Graf Petofy, SChach von Wuthenow, Irrungen Wirrungen, Unwiederbringlich, Der Stechlin
M3 - Book
SN - 978-1-907322-29-7
T3 - Bithell Series of Dissertations
BT - Space in Theodor Fontane’s Works
PB - MHRA
CY - London
ER -