Acknowledgments
In Lieu of a Theory
I. IMAGES THROUGH THE LENS
1. Goethe's Italienische Reise in its European Context
2. "Paris Change!": Perception and Narration
3. Reading "Nasty" Great Books
II. KLEIST: "THROUGH GREEN SPECTACLES"
4. Assent and Resistance in Die Marquise von O -- and Der Tod in Venedig
5. Through Multiple Lenses: Ironies in Kleist's Die Marquise von O --
6. Reading Kleist and Kafka
III. MIRROR IMAGES?
7. Realism and its "Code of Accreditation"
8. The Game of the Name
9. Not So Long Ago: Historical Allusion in Realist Fiction
10. Rereading Buddenbrooks
Notes
Index