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Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571132163
New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.
Author : Olaf Berwald,Stephen D. Dowden,Gregor Thuswaldner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351532
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.
Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833556
Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day. Reflections on Joana’s life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing an explosive end to the evening that even the writer could not have seen coming.
Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226043908
The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scientist, his endless talks with the strange Asian woman mean release from his condition, but for the Persian woman, as her own circumstances deteriorate, there is only one answer. "Thomas Bernhard was one of the few major writers of the second half of this century."—Gabriel Josipovici, Independent "With his death, European letters lost one of its most perceptive, uncompromising voices since the war."—Spectator Widely acclaimed as a novelist, playwright, and poet, Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brüchner prizes, and Le Prix Séguier.
Author : Jonathan W. Bernard
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780295801148
The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.
Author : Martin Huber,Manfred Mittermayer,Peter Karlhuber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Authors, Austrian
ISBN : UCSC:32106011223507
Author : Stephen D. Dowden
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872497593
Author : Birgit Breidenbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000067613
This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in the nexus between discourses on modernity, existentialism and aesthetics and uncovers the pivotal role of Stimmung in 19th- and 20th-century European narrative fiction and continental philosophy. The study first explores the philosophical and aesthetic origins and implications of Stimmung to, then, discuss its role in the narrative fiction of three key authors of modern literature: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. These readings demonstrate a significant shift towards an aesthetic of affective intensity and immediacy, in which the experience of the reading process takes centre stage as each author develops an aesthetic philosophy of Stimmung in their own right. Through its focus on the concept of Stimmung, the study thus unearths a fundamental link between existentialist concerns and narrative practice in modern literature.
Author : Thomas Cousineau
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130182
This critical survey of Thomas Bernhard's novels highlights a recurring theme of 'three' in Bernard's work. Thomas J. Cousineau argues that each of Bernhard's novels, although firmly anchored in Austrian history, emerges from an archetypal story involving three figures: protagonist, scapegoat and author.
Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226311043
"Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad."--Amazon.com.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345
Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521494250
The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.
Author : Samuel Frederick
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810128170
Narratives Unsettled argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language writers that only if we conceive of narrativity unburdened by plot can we properly account for radical forms of digression.
Author : Michael W. Clune
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226770291
Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful—and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies has largely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitably rooted in prejudice or entangled in problems of social status. For several decades now, professors have called their work value-neutral, simply a means for students to gain cultural, political, or historical knowledge. ?Michael W. Clune’s provocative book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education. It is impossible, Clune argues, to separate judgments about literary value from the practices of interpretation and analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise. Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment, transcending consumer culture and market preferences. Drawing on psychological and philosophical theories of knowledge and perception, Clune advocates for the cultivation of what John Keats called “negative capability,” the capacity to place existing criteria in doubt and to discover new concepts and new values in artworks. Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works by Keats, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard, showing how close reading—the profession’s traditional key skill—harnesses judgment to open new modes of perception.
Author : Herbert Lehnert,Eva Wessell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571132192
Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available.Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget.Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.
