Contents |
The spaces of truth and cathedral window light -- Epiphany: applicability of a modernist term -- The place of fin-de-siècle nature -- Prime coordinates in modernist cultural mappings -- Ironic realism and the foundational romance -- Cinematic narration in the modernist novel -- City of wo/man: labyrinth, wilderness, garden -- Afterthoughts of Hamlet: Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen -- Educational experiment in Thomas Mann -- The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions -- The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann -- Harrowing hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann -- The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) -- Structures of the self and narrative. |