C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Horb Am Neckar, Ivan Turgenev, Narration
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The village chronicle, as best illustrated by auerbach"s early and exemplary fabrications, reflects a social dynamic between initiating contact and maintaining separation. Spatial and temporal interaction with the outside is woven into a narrative mode that in turn vacillates between describing social relationships and the dramaturgy of eventful occurrences. Recursive interconnections etween individual stories and the volumes. In particular recursive interconnections between individual stories and the volumes in which they were collected (ten in the 1884 popular edition) show that and how auerbach conceived of the. Interplay betwn titles and stories they denote. Staging an emblematic question and answer structure. Title = motto, long explanation follows in the form of a verbose story. Answer pattern is explicit at beginning of manor house. Miraculous and multiple changes in social status. Contrast between the extensive wealth of her family. Legal battle fought by the head of the manor.
