Narratives unsettled
Subtitle: digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter
By: Samuel Frederick
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810128170; 9780810128187
Subjects: Digression (Rhetoric) in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Proliferation; title: Deviations and divergences: Robert Walser's perambulatory prose; title: Storytelling without the story: the unleashed discourse of Walser's microscripts; title: Part two: Rupture/dispersal; title: Digressivity, madness, and the infinite continuum in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung; title: Overcoming narration: Adalbert Stifter's Indian summer as a postnarrative novel; title: Coda: rescuing the insignificant; title: Appendix: three prose pieces by Robert Walser.