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Landscape's Revenge : The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / Caio Yurgel.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Yurgel, Caio, author.
- Series:
- Latin American literatures in the world ; Volume 2.
- Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walser, Robert, 1878-1956--Criticism and interpretation.
- Walser, Robert.
- Carvalho, Bernardo, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.
- Carvalho, Bernardo.
- 20th-century Realism.
- Anti-heroes.
- Antihelden.
- Landscape.
- Landschaft.
- Realismus.
- Romanticism.
- Romantik.
- Local Subjects:
- 20th-century Realism.
- Anti-heroes.
- Antihelden.
- Landscape.
- Landschaft.
- Realismus.
- Romanticism.
- Romantik.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 3-11-061758-7
- OCLC:
- 1076476178
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