Gattungen als imaginäre Kontexte

• Büttner, Urs ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Hannover

     University of Hannover

     Region Hannover, Alemania

     
• Localización: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, ISSN 0340-4528, Vol. 41, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 21-40
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Today literary criticism contests the ‘Volksbuch’ as a genre since its criteria seem under-defined. This paper aims, from a functional point of view, to explain its historical success by tracing four histories of this genre. The under-definition of the genre turns out as the precondition of its manifold employments. What the different histories have in common is the imagination of the ‘Volks-buch’, which could unify the German nation. The ‘Volksbuch’, the paper will argue, is a virtual modern genre which imagines an anti-modern state of society and literature