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Robert Walser : a companion
- Title
- Robert Walser : a companion / edited by Samuel Frederick and Valerie Heffernan.
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 298 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "This book was inspired by a number of panels titled "Reading Robert Walser" that took place at the conference of the German Studies Association in October 2010 and some subsequent conversations on both sides of the Atlantic about the growing recognition of Walser's work in the English-speaking world."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction. Robert Walser : modernist at the margins / Samuel Frederick and Valerie Heffernan -- The young poet (1896-1899) / Susan Bernofsky -- To pieces : Robert Walser's correspondence with Frieda Mermet / Elke Siegel -- Robert Walser as lyric poet / Samuel Frederick -- Antechambers of life : school and living-on in Fritz Kocher's essays / Anette Schwarz -- Robert Walser's Jewish Berlin / Daniel Medin -- Out of a job : giving notice in The tanners and The assistant / Paul Buchholz -- Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten : a "zero" point of German literature / Peter Utz -- Robert Walser's sceneries : "Kleist in Thun" and "The walk" / Bernhard F. Malkmus -- Immersion, interpolation, philology : losing oneself in Robert Walser / Jörg Kreienbrock -- Parodies of power : Robert Walser's dramatic scenes / Valerie Heffernan -- Robert Walser and violence : strange excursions into the microscripts / Kai Evers -- Robert Walser's The robber : an exercise in camp / Anne Fuchs.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6989
- ISBN
- 9780810137127
- 0810137127
- 9780810137134
- 0810137135
- LCCN
- 2017049797
- OCLC
- 1005118636
- Title
- Robert Walser : a companion / edited by Samuel Frederick and Valerie Heffernan.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and indexes.
- Added Author
- Frederick, Samuel, editor.Heffernan, Valerie, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6989