The Marble Statue as Idea
Subtitle: Collected Essays on Adalbert Stifter's "Der Nachsommer"
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781469658407
Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
Description: Each of the nine essays in this illuminating study of "Der Nachsommer" focuses on heretofore overlooked details of the novel. As all the phenomena presented are oriented toward fulfillment of their highest potential, the novel emerges as a powerful assertion of the intent to achieve classical form in all things despite the ever-present threat of dissolution and chaos. With such emphasis upon the achievement of perfection, "Der Nachsommer" itself becomes a masterly exemplification of Stifter's concept Gestalt with its full ethical connotations.
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