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Publications [#286175] of Thomas Pfau

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

1. Pfau, T, Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative, European Romantic Review, vol. 18 no. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 231-241, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 1050-9585 [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/04/23)

   Abstract:
   This essay sketches the antithesis between a teleological and a variational model of development (Bildung) in nineteenth-century thought, with a particular focus on narrative. I argue that, in the course of that century, the initially dynamic logic of Bildung is gradually vanquished by an institutional model that shifts away from Goethe's contingent, open-ended logic of development and towards a notion of Bildung as the virtual and soon canonical property of information.