Adalbert Stifter: A Critical Study
A Critical Study
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-1-107-60130-7 (ISBN)
Description
Adalbert Stifter (1805-68) is generally recognised in German-speaking countries to be the greatest prose-writer of Austria. First published in 1948, this was the first complete study of his work to appear in English. Stifter was born and dwelt in the village of Oberplan on the southern fringe of Bohemia. His life was uneventful, and Mr Blackall's concern is biographical study only so far as the life and background are important in a full understanding of the writings. His plan is to first give an account and analysis of Der Nachsommer, Stifter's greatest book and the work of his maturity, and to make this novel the key to all his other work as well as to his life and thought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60130-7 (9781107601307)
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Content
Frontispiece; Part I. Prologue: 1. Introduction; Part II. Evolution: 2. The setting; 3. The child; 4. Kremsmuenster; 5. Vienna; 6. First loves; 7. Amalia; 8. The first Studien; 9. Der Hochwald; Part III. Realization: 10. Die Narrenburg, Prokopus, Wien und die Wiener; 11. Die Mappe meines Urgrossvaters; 12. Abdias, Das alte Siegel, Brigitta; 13. The last studien; Part IV. Crisis: 14. Before the storm; 15. Revolution and reaction; 16. Bunte Steine; Part V. Fruition: 17. Education; 18. Art; 19. Der Nachsommer; 20. Late stories; 21. Witiko; Part VI. Epilogue: 22. The summing up; Select bibliography; Index.