Realistische Moderne – Modernistischer Realismus

Thomas Mann is one of the most important writers of literary modernism. However, given his reservations towards avant-gardist experimentation and the continuation of the 19th-century realist literary tradition in his work, the question has been raised whether Mann can be considered an emphatically modernist author at all.
This book does not focus on the purported tension between realism and modernism, but instead on their interdependencies and productive connections. It discusses realist modernity and modernist realism with a particular focus on both Thomas Mann and the works of other important writers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

With contributions by
Kristin Bönicke | Matthias Grüne | Jan Hurta | Tom Kindt | Sascha Michel | Michael Navratil | Maike Neumann | Fabian Rüther | Florian Scherübl | Maren Scheurer | Janka Zündorf