Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110617665
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9783110617580
Series Statement:
Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo volume 2
Content:
Landscape, as it appears and is described throughout the works of Bernardo Carvalho and Robert Walser, provides an excellent-yet virtually unexplored-pathway to the authors' literary projects. The landscape functions here as a synthetic and unifying figure that triggers, at first, through the analysis of its description per se, the main and most evident elements of the authors' works. However, when sustained as a methodological figure beyond the scope of its own description, the landscape soon reveals a darker, far more fascinating and far less explored side of the authors' oeuvres: a vengeful, seemingly defeatist resentment against the status quo, which gives way to the more latent and biting elements of the authors' prose, such as irony, the unheimlich, an anti-heroic agenda, the apocalyptic aesthetics of a disaster-prone fictional world, as well as an understanding of history and literature through the figures of failure and marginality. By drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this comparative text seeks to unravel, in all of its complexity and scope, the fictional stage upon which Walser's and Carvalho's characters narrate, with their dying breath, a world that is slowly undoing itself
Note:
Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
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Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2016
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Frontmatter -- -- Acknowledgement -- -- Contents -- -- 1. Introduction -- -- 2. Literature review: Landscape's revenge -- -- 3. From the unreal to the apocalypse: The landscape as a function of language and narrative in Walser and Carvalho -- -- 4. The disappearing act: Moving towards the margins -- -- 5. How to do things with fire: The desert as landscape's final revenge and as the culmination of Walser's and Carvalho's literary projects -- -- 6. The desert for conclusion -- -- References
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110617573
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yurgel, Caio Landscape's Revenge Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN 3110617579
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110617573
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
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German Studies
Keywords:
Landschaft
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Walser, Robert 1878-1956
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Carvalho, Bernardo 1960-
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110617580
URL:
Volltext
(Open Access)
Author information:
Yurgel, Caio
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