The Ironical Mode in the Contemporary Romance Novel
Abstract
The ironical mode is a complex of literary, especially structural, metafictional, in-tertextual, distancing, and illusion-breaking methods that are used in contemporary German romance novels. A relativistic notion of love as cultural construct underlies this formal organ-ization. In the paper the ironical mode is opposed with the utopian mode, and questions con-cerning its efficacy in the contemporary German literature are posed. Romance novels by Wolf Haas, Monique Schwitter, Christoph Höhtker, Peter Handke, Martin Walser, Friedrich Christian Delius, Navid Kermani, Brigitte Kronauer, Olga Flor, Elfriede Jelinek, Sibylle Berg, Marlene Streeruwitz and Corinna T. Sievers are approached.
Keywords:
romance novel, love, irony, contemporary German literatureReferences
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Authors
Rafał Pokrywkarafalpok@o2.pl
Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5510-9412
Rafał Pokrywka, PhD in literary studies, currently working at the Chair of Comparative Literature at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Relevant publications: Der Liebesroman im 21. Jahrhundert (The Romance Novel in the 21st Century, editor, 2017), Współczesna powieść niemieckojęzyczna (The Contemporary German Novel, author, 2018). E-mail: rafal.pokrywka@ukw.edu.pl
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