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The Novels of Thomas Bernhard
Form and Its Function
J.J. Long
http://www.boydell.co.uk/4018.HTM
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is one of the most important writers
of the postwar period, not only in his native Austria, but throughout
Europe. Almost all his works have been translated into English,
and his novels, plays, and non-fiction works have won international
acclaim. The present study provides an accessible introduction to
Bernhard's novels for an English-speaking readership, and also
makes an original contribution to the ongoing debate on this
fascinating author. The book's primary emphasis is on Bernhard's
later fiction, but it also explicates the early texts of the 1960s and
1970s. The book makes use of insights from recent approaches to
fiction that pay attention to what can be termed 'narrative
dynamics.' Earlier studies of Bernhard have tended to remain within
the descriptive framework established in narrative studies of the
1950s and 1960s; this book views Bernhard's prose works from a
more nuanced vantage point.
Jonathan Long is lecturer in German at the University of Durham,
UK.
240 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
ISBN: 1 57113 224 4
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2001
Price: 59.00 USD, 40.00 GBP
and
The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn
Criticism and the Literary Outsider
Thomas Freeman
http://www.boydell.co.uk/981.HTM
Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) is one of Germany's most
controversial modern authors, in large part due to sharply diverging
reactions to the depictions of sado-masochistic brutality, incest,
and homoeroticism in his plays and novels. Jahnn's rank as a
writer has long been a topic of intense debate between rival
schools of critics, and his works have provoked extreme
responses, both positive and negative, from a wide spectrum of
scholars, writers, and critics, including such prominent figures as
Alfred Döblin, Walter Benjamin, Thomas and Klaus Mann,
Wolfgang Koeppen, Walter and Adolf Muschg, Wilhelm Emrich,
Hubert Fichte and many others. Freeman focuses on characteristic
examples of different approaches to Jahnn: structuralist,
psychoanalytic, Jungian-archetypal, Marxist, biographical, literary-
historical, postmodern, gay, and feminist. Freeman shows how
behind the veil of objectivity, literary scholars often have a hidden
agenda that is based on an emotional reaction to Jahnn's portrayal
of homosexuality and violence, his negative images of women, and
his worldview, which some critics have linked to some of the same
ideological presuppositions as those of National Socialism. This is
the first full-length study of Jahnn criticism.
Thomas Freeman is associate professor of German at Beloit
College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
280 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
ISBN: 1 57113 206 6
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2001
Price: 65.00 USD, 40.00 GBP
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