Search Results for Kunstlerroman

... reality—against which the unreality of what is around the chaldrons emerges. This madeness is important to the larger novel because made things have makers, and I think that, among the many other things it is, Chronic City is (and, again, like Infinite Jest ), a kind of Kunstlerroman...

... as a path to assimilation. That he also writes stories based on the lives of these two women provides a second important reference to the Alta Loma scene. Often read as a Künstlerroman, the tale of Arturo’s development as a writer certainly begins with a false start at the Alta Loma, where...

... around the neglected work of the novelist and activist Mary Hunter Austin—particularly her 1912 Künstlerroman, A Woman and a Genius—Olwell’s fourth chapter really provides a rich extended cultural portrait of an entire era too often neglected in American literary scholar- ship: the early decades...

... heterogeneity that includes a dog’s breakfast of literary genres and techniques including allegory, tract, autobiography, history, and the Kunstlerroman. As Bernard F. Dick has commented, Golding “approaches plot poetically, beginning with an idea, an image, or a myth” (97), and his observation...

.... H. Lawrence’s Paul Morel—Stephen finds her tri­ umph in turning away from, not taking her place within, the domestic plot. She steps from the conclusion of the romance into the conclusion of the kunstlerroman, or novel of artistic development. In its invocation of a future of narrative...

... of productive tensions that strikingly meet throughout his queer Künstlerroman and its quasi-autobiographical account of JM’s self-composition. The poetry reading with which the poem closes pointedly mingles poetic and sexual self-fashioning when, in the buildup to it, we learn that Ephraim will “ bring...