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

• Author(s): Leo A. Lensing,
• Publisher: P. Lang
• Pages: 115
• ISBN_10: 3261021284
  ISBN_13: 9783261021281
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / German ,

Description:... 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.