Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

by Samuel Frederick

Book Overview

In Narratives Unsettled, Samuel Frederick proposes a new conception of narrativity that can accommodate unwieldy forms of digression. By way of close readings of three German-language writers from different historical periods, Frederick demonstrates that digression, far from being a non- or anti-narrative interruption, contributes to what makes these writers' works fundamentally narrative. In the process, the author counters several foundational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128187
• ISBN13: 9780810128187
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"