Über Thomas Bernhard II. PDF Download

Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783518109199
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132161
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.

Author: Jonathan James Long
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The book's primary emphasis is on Bernhard's later fiction, but it also explicates the early texts of the 1960s and 1970s. The book makes use of insights from recent approaches to fiction that pay attention to what can be termed "narrative dynamics." Earlier studies of Bernhard have tended to remain within the descriptive framework established in narrative studies of the 1950s and 1960s; this book views Bernhard's prose works from a more nuanced vantage point."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Martin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004654666
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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This study examines the nihilistic basis of Bernhard's writing, and traces developments in the author's nihilistic stance throughout his career. In the first period of his prose fiction (1963-1975), nihilism is reluctantly accepted by Bernhard's fictional characters as a necessary response to a world perceived as meaningless. Various possible sources of transcendence are explored, and rejected. The autobiographical texts (1975-1982) then represent a sustained attempt by the author himself to transcend his own essentially nihilistic state. The apparent success of this attempt is quickly revealed to be illusory in the prose fiction of the second period (1978-1986), and it becomes apparent that nihilism is a no less necessary response to Austrian social reality than to the (more purely) personal problems which first motivated Bernhard's writing.

Author: Anneliese Botond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 172

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Author: Olaf Berwald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501351532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His books never “tell a story” in the received sense. Instead, he rages on the page, he rants and spews vitriol about the moral failures of his homeland, Austria, in the long amnesiac aftermath of the Second World War. Yet this furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhard's death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard's singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives examines the international mobilization of Bernhard's style. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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Author: Matthias Konzett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594122X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1159

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Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Author: Michael Cherlin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This volume not only offers an overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also a cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists."--Jacket.

Author: Martin Huber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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