Der ironische Modus im aktuellen Liebesroman
The Ironical Mode in the Contemporary Romance Novel

Summary/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.

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