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The poetics of scepticism : Gottfried Keller and Die Leute von Seldwyla / Erika Swales.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swales, Erika, 1937-
- Series:
- Berg monographs in German literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keller, Gottfried, 1819-1890. Leute von Seldwyla.
- Keller, Gottfried.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 206 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Providence, RI : Berg, 1994.
- Summary:
- Gottfried Keller is the greatest prose writer of nineteenth-century Switzerland. This study examines his best-known work, 'Die Leute von Seldwyla', a cycle of ten tales, all of which are set in or near a fictitious community. By means of a close reading, this study uncovers a whole number of undercurrents and tensions in these seemingly sturdy narratives of rural life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0854969039 :
- OCLC:
- 28887944
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