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Author:

Frederick, Samuel.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 237 p. ; 23 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)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230) and index.

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 Verst©œrung -- Overcoming narration: Adalbert Stifter's Indian summer as a postnarrative novel -- Coda: rescuing the insignificant -- Appendix: three prose pieces by Robert Walser.

ISBN:

0810128187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780810128187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810128179 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810128170 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)749855402

LCCN:

2011050980

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)