Inquiry and Testament : A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser / George C. Avery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avery, George C., author.

Series:

University of Pennsylvania Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures Series

University of Pennsylvania Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1968]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Bibliographical Note

Key to abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Simon Tanner

3. Joseph Marti

4. Jakob von Gunten

5. Themes and variations

6. Style

7. Shorter prose works

8. Walser in perspective

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

1-5128-2117-9

OCLC:

1024051758