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1 online resource (264 pages). |
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text file PDF rda |
| Series |
Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018). |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
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Carvalho, Bernardo, 1960- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Walser, Robert, 1878-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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20th-century Realism.
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Antihelden.
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Antiheroes.
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Landscapes.
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Landschaft.
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Realismus.
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Romanticism.
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Romantik.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9783110617665 |
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Print version: 9783110617573 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9783110617580 doi |
| ISBN |
9783110617580 (electronic bk.) |
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3110617587 (electronic bk.) |
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