Inhaltsangabe* Acknowledgments * Introduction * I. Reconsidering the Ordinary: Between Reproduction and Creativity * II. Reading the Surface: Siegfried Kracauer and the Ornaments of the Ordinary * III. Listening to the Ordinary: Alfred Döblin's Modernist Encyclopedia of Practical Knowledge * IV. The Promise of the Ordinary: Elias Canetti's Novel between Satire and Existential Analysis * V. Beyond the Negativity of Form: Concluding Remarks on the Analytic Dimension of the Modernist Novel * Bibliography

Christian Sieg holds a research position at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" and teaches in the Department of German Studies at the University of Münster. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2008.

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