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Narratives unsettled : digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter / Samuel Frederick.

Title
Narratives unsettled : digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter / Samuel Frederick.
Author
Frederick, Samuel
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012.

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Description
x, 237 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Walser, Robert, 1878-1956 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Bernhard, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation
  • Stifter, Adalbert > Criticism and interpretation
  • Digression (Rhetoric) in literature
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part one: Proliferation -- Deviations and divergences: Robert Walser's perambulatory prose -- Storytelling without the story: the unleashed discourse of Walser's microscripts -- Part two: Rupture/dispersal -- Digressivity, madness, and the infinite continuum in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung -- Overcoming narration: Adalbert Stifter's Indian summer as a postnarrative novel -- Coda: rescuing the insignificant -- Appendix: three prose pieces by Robert Walser.
ISBN
  • 9780810128170 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0810128179 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780810128187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0810128187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011050980
OCLC
  • 749855402
  • SCSB-10940470
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library