03759cam a22003373u 4500 76588 UtSlPG 20260610134755.0 m cr n 260607r20251904utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 09024300 UtSlPG de iso639-1 PT Schian, Martin, 1869-1944 Der deutsche Roman seit Goethe Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-07-29 Die Bedeutung des Romans -- Aus der Vorgeschichte des modernen Romans -- Goethe der Schöpfer des modernen deutschen Romans -- Roman und Novelle der Romantik -- Die Volkserzählung -- Der tendenziöse Zeitroman -- Der objektivere Zeitroman -- Der historische Roman -- Die Stimmungsdichtung -- Der naturalistische Roman -- Der Problem- und Gesellschaftsroman -- Dekadence. Symbolismus. Tendenzroman -- Rückblick. Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Der deutsche Roman seit Goethe : Skizzen und Streiflichter" by Martin Schian is a collection of literary lectures written in the early 20th century. The work surveys the development of the German novel from Goethe onward, combining clear, accessible criticism with selective case studies rather than exhaustive cataloging. It aims to help educated readers judge and choose significant novels, tracing major currents such as Romanticism, the historical and realist traditions, Naturalism, and problem-oriented fiction. The opening of the work sets its scope and purpose in a preface: these are adapted public lectures meant to present literary history lucidly to a wider audience, focusing only on the German novel since Goethe and favoring depth over completeness. The first chapter argues for the cultural weight of the novel, defines it as a complex narrative that furnishes a world-picture rooted in reality, and distinguishes modes (historical, contemporary, psychological, naturalistic, and tendentious), while warning against trivial or purely sensational fiction. A concise prehistory follows, from medieval verse narratives and Volksbücher through Reformation-era bourgeois tales, Grimmelshausen’s seventeenth-century satire, and the Enlightenment, critiquing Wieland’s Agathon as philosophically didactic yet dramatically thin, before declaring Goethe the true founder of the modern German novel. The subsequent, substantial analysis reads Werther as a gripping interior study of passion, Wilhelm Meister as a sprawling but idea-rich Bildungsroman, and The Elective Affinities as a model of unified idea and action centered on marriage; Wanderjahre is deemed a chain of novellas rather than a novel. The section closes by framing Goethe’s enduring importance—psychological depth, timely sensibility, and the fusion of thought with plot—and then pivots to Romantic prose: Novalis’s visionary, allegorical Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Eichendorff’s lyrical fairy-tale-like Taugenichts, Schlegel’s fragmentary and sensual Lucinde, and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s darkly fantastic, uncanny tales, exemplified by The Devil’s Elixir. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Görlitz: Rudolf Dülfer, 1904 German fiction -- History and criticism https://archive.org/details/derdeutscheroman00schiuoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76588 117313 117313