The Brief Compass The Nineteenth Century German Novelle

The Novelle has always invited theoretical definition, as demonstrated bythe important statements on its form and function by Goethe, Heyse, et al.,reproduced in an appendix to this book. But Roger Paulin's purpose is to relatesuch theoretical discussion to the tradition whence the Novelle sprang, toexamples of the genre written outside Germany (by such as Poe as Turgenev), andto the wider context of German literature in the nineteenth century. In short,he regards the Novelle both in terms of literary context and of individualpractice, rather than as an abstract concept.