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Author:

William, Jennifer, 1971-

Title:

Killing time : waiting hierarchies in the twentieth-century German novel / Jennifer Marston William.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

257 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
German fiction--Europe, German-speaking--History and criticism.
Waiting (Philosophy) in literature.
Time in literature.
Hierarchies in literature.
Social structure in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : waiting hierarchies: symptomatic of modern life -- Der Verschollene : "why are you keeping me waiting?" -- Der Zauberberg : "empty betweentimes" -- Transit : "an insane waiting for nothing" -- Mutmassungen über Jakob : "the world hasn't been waiting just for me" -- Malina : "must one wait a whole lifetime?" -- "Ich" : "now I could only wait-- for what?" -- Nachwelt : "the waiting existed only for her".

ISBN:

0838757413 (alk. paper)
9780838757413 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320895377

LCCN:

2009016529

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)