Spaces of Adolescence: Contemporary German-language Youth Literature in Topographical Perspective

Foreword
Contents
1: Topographies of Adolescence
	1.1	 Introduction
	1.2	 Literary Imaginative Spaces of Adolescence: Diachronic Narrative Patterns
	1.3	 Varieties of the Adolescent Novel: Classic, Modern, Postmodern
	1.4	 Developments since 2000: The Text Corpus
2: Space, Literature, Culture: Methodological Considerations
	2.1	 Introduction
	2.2	 Topographies of Literary Studies
		2.2.1	 Jurij M. Lotman: Spatial Semantics
		2.2.2	 Gerhard Hoffmann: Space, Situation, Narrated Reality
		2.2.3	 Michel Foucault: Heterotopia
	2.3	 Narrative Space, Narrated Space, Spatial Function
3: Travelling and Driving Around: Road Novels
	3.1	 Introduction: Busfahrt mit Kuhn, Fast genial, Tschick
	3.2	 Intermedial Form: Audio-visual Narrative Space
	3.3	 Narrated Spaces in Motion
		3.3.1	 Outbreaks and Break-ups: Dysfunctional Family Spaces
		3.3.2	 Chronotope Journey: Stopovers
	3.4	 Space Function: Self-search on the Move
4: Adolescence and the City: Urban Spaces on the Move
	4.1	 Introduction: Es war einmal Indianerland, Räuberhände, Tigermilch
	4.2	 Narrative In-between, Narrative Sampling: Narrative Space as Mosaic
	4.3	 Narrated In-between Spaces of the Big City
		4.3.1	 Fragile Childhood Spaces
		4.3.2	 Heterotopic Retreats
		4.3.3	 Threshold Walks: Oscillating Forms of Movement
	4.4	 At the Boundaries of the Self: Space and Ritual
5: Excursus: Transitional Passages in Archaic Space
	5.1	 Introduction
	5.2	 Gender, Forest and Initiation: Mädchenmeute
	5.3	 Choppy Movements: Bilder deiner großen Liebe
6: Stasis, Standstill, Staying: Poetics of Stagnation
	6.1	 Introduction: Die Welt ist eine Scheibe, Hikikomori, Pampa Blues
	6.2	 Inside and Outside of Narration and Experience
	6.3	 Isolated Areas of Action
		6.3.1	 Familial Fields of Interference
		6.3.2	 Stasis
		6.3.3	 Overlaps and Crossings in Narrated Space
	6.4	 Negated Self-search, Attempted Passage: Spatial Function
7: Textures of Struggling
	7.1	 Textual Findings
	7.2	 Intersections of Adolescence, Space, Literature and Culture
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