Furst, Lilian R. Through the lens of the reader : : explorations of European narrative / [electronic resource] / Lilian R. Furst.. — Albany : : State University of New York Press,, c1992.. — ix, 186 p. ; 24 cm. — (SUNY series, the margins of literature). - SUNY series, margins of literature. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-182) and index.
I. Images through the lens -- Goethe's Italienische Reise in its European context -- "Paris change!" perception and narration -- Reading "nasty" great books -- II. Kleist: "through green spectacles" -- Assent and resistance in Die Marquise von O--and Der Tod in Venedig -- Through multiple lenses: ironies in Kleist's Die Marquise von O-- -- Reading Kleist and Kafka -- III. Mirror images? -- Realism and its "code of accreditation" -- The game of the name -- Not so long ago: historical allusion in realist fiction -- Rereading Buddenbrooks.