Zeitungslektüre und Zeitungspoetik in Fontanes Romanen
- This article examines scenes of Zeitungslektüre (newspaper reading) in some exemplary Fontane novels to reconstruct them as a serial narrative pattern that fills specific narrative functions similar to other narrative patterns such as letter writing or country excursions (Landpartien) which have often been shown to be typical for Fontane’s novels. These newspaper scenes can be read as multifaceted culmination points at the surface of the novel’s story in which aspects of Fontane’s writing practices, formal aspects (characterization of figures, narrative temporalities, narrative structure), autopoietic reflection as well as addresses to the readers are brought into a complex interplay. The newspaper-reading scenes are thus significant textual signals of what has been called Fontane’s specific Zeitungspoetik. The argument is unfolded by examining examples from three different genres: the historical novel Unwiederbringlich, the “Berlin everyday novels” (“Berliner Alltagsgeschichten”) Irrungen, Wirrungen and Mathilde Möhring, and theThis article examines scenes of Zeitungslektüre (newspaper reading) in some exemplary Fontane novels to reconstruct them as a serial narrative pattern that fills specific narrative functions similar to other narrative patterns such as letter writing or country excursions (Landpartien) which have often been shown to be typical for Fontane’s novels. These newspaper scenes can be read as multifaceted culmination points at the surface of the novel’s story in which aspects of Fontane’s writing practices, formal aspects (characterization of figures, narrative temporalities, narrative structure), autopoietic reflection as well as addresses to the readers are brought into a complex interplay. The newspaper-reading scenes are thus significant textual signals of what has been called Fontane’s specific Zeitungspoetik. The argument is unfolded by examining examples from three different genres: the historical novel Unwiederbringlich, the “Berlin everyday novels” (“Berliner Alltagsgeschichten”) Irrungen, Wirrungen and Mathilde Möhring, and the Zeitroman or political novel Der Stechlin.…
Author details: | Iwan-Michelangelo D'AprileORCiDGND |
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URL: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/26976011 |
ISSN: | 0010-1338 |
Title of parent work (German): | Colloquia Germanica : internationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik |
translated title (English): | Newspaper reading and newspaper poetics in Fontane's novels |
Publisher: | Narr Francke Attempto |
Place of publishing: | Tübingen |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first publication: | 2020 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2021/03/31 |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
First page: | 27 |
Last Page: | 46 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |