A companion to the works of Adalbert Stifter /

"Presents Stifter's multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today's readers the relevance of its concerns. The canonical nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), long considered a staid stylist (if not mann...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ireton, Sean Moore (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc., 2025.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Stifter's epic style / Tove Holmes
  • Stifter and the genre conventions of cultural journalism / Sean Franzel
  • All eyes on the streets : transformations of public work, leisure, and ritual in Wien und die Wiener / Vance Byrd
  • Stifter's late style / Samuel Frederick
  • The birth of realism out of the spirit of melodrama : Stifter's Feldblumen / Erica Weitzman
  • Backward glances : registers of the past in Stifter's Die Mappe meines Urgrossvaters / Jessica C. Resvick
  • Lessons from Stifter's Bunte Steine / Zachary Sng
  • Absence and omnipresence : on the significance of waste in Stifter's Der Nachsommer / Lars Rosenbaum
  • Stifter's stones / Jason Groves
  • Stifter's glaciers / Matthew H. Birkhold
  • Cheerful terror : Stifter and the aesthetics of atmosphere / Alexander Robert Phillips
  • Stifter's Bavarian-Bohemian bioregionalism / Sean Ireton.