Narrative Structure and the Reader in Wilhelm Raabe's «Im Alten Eisen»

By Leo A Lensing

The author examines the relationship between the narrator and the reader in Wilhelm Raabe's Im alten Eisen (1887) both as an aspect of narrative structure and as a reflection of social and cultural criticism. Using W. Iser's concept of the implied reader , the interpretation progresses from an investigation of Raabe's actual readers to a Im alten Eisen is linked to its unusual synthesis of the fairy-tale and the novelistic genres and to its parody of the family-journal novels of E. Marlitt.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3261021284
• ISBN13: 9783261021281
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 115 Pages