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Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Game/Play with Abstract Fable Style in the Novel "Das Kind, das nicht fragte"

Author(s): Katarzyna Grzywka-Kolago
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: folktale; abstract style; novel; Hanns-Josef Ortheil; Max Lüthi
Summary/Abstract: According to the theory of the Swiss folktale scholar Max Lüthi, the genre is characterised by the so-called abstract style. Its central features include ‘isolation’ and ‘extreme contrasts.’ The purpose of the paper is to prove the hypothesis that the abstract style is an important narrative facet of Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s novel "Das Kind, das nicht fragte" (2012). This is most apparent in the composition of principal and secondary characters, but also in the creation of space.

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