附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
