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Killing time : waiting hierarchies in the twentieth-century German novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: William, Jennifer, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
German fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
German fiction > Europe, German-speaking > History and criticism.
Waiting (Philosophy) in literature.
Time in literature.
Hierarchies in literature.
Social structure in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : waiting hierarchies: symptomatic of modern life
  • Der Verschollene : "why are you keeping me waiting?"
  • Der Zauberberg : "empty betweentimes"
  • Transit : "an insane waiting for nothing"
  • Mutmassungen über Jakob : "the world hasn't been waiting just for me"
  • Malina : "must one wait a whole lifetime?"
  • "Ich" : "now I could only wait-- for what?"
  • Nachwelt : "the waiting existed only for her".