{"title":"Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSignale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rich exploration of contemporary German intellectual and cultural landscapes. Readers will encounter critical essays and reflections that illuminate the intersections of literature, philosophy, history, and politics within modern German-speaking contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis series invites engagement with diverse themes ranging from historical analysis and cultural critique to political discourse and personal thought. It is an essential collection for those interested in understanding the complexity and vitality of modern German letters and ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"allegories-of-format-by-malika-maskarinec-9781501784064","title":"Allegories of Format","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAllegories of Format\u003c\/em\u003e examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, \u003cem\u003eGreen Henry\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eDer grüne Heinrich\u003c\/em\u003e). Malika Maskarinec understands format as the organisation of a media object's relationship to a world of objects and persons; format orders a text's contents or, in the case of literature, what it represents. Maskarinec focuses on three formats of growing prominence in nineteenth-century media culture: the collected-works edition, the document, and the periodical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe analysis demonstrates that different fictional worlds, characters, and plots in Keller's literary output allegorise the problems that specific print and paper formats pose to literary ideals of literature as an art form and to ideals of creative authorship. As \u003cem\u003eAllegories of Format\u003c\/em\u003e shows, attending to format allows for false antitheses inherited from the nineteenth century to be dismantled - between high and trivial literature, between the singular artwork and mass media products, and between creative literary works and the supposedly uncreative writing practices of office work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as an Open Access volume thanks to funding from the University of Bern\/Universität Bern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933734781164,"sku":"9781501784064","price":445.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501784064-allegories-of-format.jpg?v=1783879715"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/series-signale-modern-german-letters-cultures-and-thought.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}