Germany as Model and Monster
Download or Read eBook Germany as Model and Monster PDF written by Gisela Argyle and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Gisela Argyle |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002 |
ISBN-10 | : 0773523510 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780773523517 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Germany as Model and Monster by : Gisela Argyle
Book excerpt: In Germany as Model and Monster Gisela Argyle details allusions in English novels to German social, cultural, and political life. Such allusions serve as criticism of English life and of English conventions of fiction. Beginning her study with Thomas Carlyle's "Germanizing" efforts in the 1830s and ending before Hitler's Third Reich and the Holocaust, Argyle concludes that current global conceptions of Englishness and of national literatures have made this kind of comparison in fiction obsolete.