Homer takes the Streetcar – The Modernist Appropriation of the Epic and Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz

In this article, I will show how Alfred Döblin is, on the one hand, captivated by the extensiveness of the traditional epic - a quality which Hegel in his Lectures on Fine Arts highlights and which is often terminologically expressed as 'epic breadth' - whilst on the other hand, Döblin is...

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Main Author: Christian Sieg
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fbfd842e20ee410480faa4eb76f27b71
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