The Vanished Narrator:Genre Legacy and Self-Writing of Der grüne Heinrich
The realistic novel Der grüne Heinrich by Gottfried Keller,a Swiss author of the 19th century,was published in two editions.The first edition released in 1854/1855,was written at a time when French literature was going through a turning point towards modernism.Yet this edition,which had much in common with Madame Bovary,was coldly marketed due to the stylistic imbalance in narrative structure.It was republished with substantial changes in 1879/1880 and became a classic work of German realism.Starting from the history of the novel and the edition differences,the thesis places the first edition of Der grüne Heinrich in the narrative genre tradition since the German Enlightenment,and draws on Foucault's study of the ethical practices of the subject in order to understand the internal logic of the novel as a writing of the self and to reflect on the historical dilemmas of the German realism in the 19th century.
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