Scheitern in Der Vormoderne: Narrative Konzeptionalisierungen in Literatur Und Historiographie [German]

Failure is a fundamental human experience, and narrating failure is also a phenomenon that transcends time. The contributions in this volume examine the narrative engagement with failure in various literary and historiographical genres of the pre-modern period and show what functions, aims and possible meanings are associated with it. They also investigate ways of coping with failure through strategies of explanation, repulse, or reinterpretation, with a special focus on transcendental patterns. Failure is also examined in its rhetorical stagings and its poetological dimensions. The narrative of failure proves to be a productive moment of meaning-making and a figure of reflection with far-reaching cultural significance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3847116754
• ISBN13: 9783847116752
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 515 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.