Narratives unsettled digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter /

Frederick, Samuel

Narratives unsettled digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter / [Texte imprimé] : Samuel Frederick - Evanston : Northwestern University Press, cop. 2012 - 1 vol. (X-237 p.) ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. 219-230

Part one: Proliferation -- Deviations and divergences: Robert Walser's perambulatory prose -- Storytelling without the story: the unleashed discourse of Walser's microscripts -- Part two: Rupture/dispersal -- Digressivity, madness, and the infinite continuum in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung -- Overcoming narration: Adalbert Stifter's Indian summer as a postnarrative novel -- Coda: rescuing the insignificant -- Appendix: three prose pieces by Robert Walser

978-0-8101-2817-0

Digression (Rhetoric) in literature Narration (Rhetoric)

833.00923