Thomas Bernhard's comic materialism
Subtitle: class, art, and "socialism" in post-war Austria
By: Russell T. Harrison
Series: German life and civilization -- 55
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9783034302869
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Bernhard's anti-proletarian screed: The 'Politische Morgenandacht' in its historical context; title: Obedience, history, everyday life, and the return of class conflict in Das Kalkwerk; title: Alienated labor and the abolition of class society: Thomas Bernhard and the proletarian; title: Excursus: the ohlsdorfer bauernbündler and the 'little shit' from Brooklyn: Thomas Bernhard in the light of Henry Miller; title: The social(ist) construction of art in Thomas Bernhard's Alte Meister; title: Excursus: Salzburg; title: Epilogue: Gmunden, and everything connected with it.