This dissertation seeks t o achieve three objectives:
(1) to draw attention to the genre of the "Dorfgeschichte,"
(2) to examine "Dorfgeschichten" which were highly acclaimed
in nineteenth century Germany, but are dismissed by literary
scholarship today, (3) and most importantly, to adjust
decades of inveterate and misleading critical responses with
regard to the writers Berthold Auerbach and Jeremias
Gotthelf.
Although Auerbach's Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten were
received with great enthusiasm by the literati in nineteenth
century Germany, his contribution to the genre is diminished
by literary critics and historians today. Some, such as
Hermann Boeschenstein, claim that the author "was merely ...
sugar-coating the realities of peasant life , while having no
real contacts with it . "On the other hand, although the
majority of Gotthelfs shorter narrative works receive
little scholarly attention , the consensus of critical
opinion in regard to the author is that he possessed an
"unexcelled insight into the peasant's inner life ."
On the basis of my close analysis of Auerbach's and
Gotthelfs respective texts : Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten
(1843-1854), and Kleinere Erzahlunaen (1838-1852),
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/3294 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Shinnors, Mary Bernice |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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