Abstract
This article considers the German Grammar School Novel from the first half of the twentieth century an all but forgotten Germanophone prototype of campus fiction. Whereas the Anglo-American campus novel of the 1970s, 80s and 90s features university professors as future-related agents of Western counterculture and free thought, the Grammar School Novel satirizes the German grammar school teacher known as Gymnasialprofessor as a representative of the past-related order of the autocratic German state apparatus from the beginning of the twentieth century. As Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel Professor Unrat / Small Town Tyrant (the source text of Marlene Dietrich's debut movie The Blue Angel) may be considered a foundational work of the German Grammar School Novel corpus, the main part of the article offers a sample analysis of this text.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 63-71 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Acta Neophilologica |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 602008 English studies
- 602053 Comparative literature studies
- 602014 German studies
Keywords
- Anglo-American Campus Novel
- German Grammar School Novel
- Heinrich Mann
- The Blue Angel
- Marlene Dietrich