Landscape's Revenge :
Yurgel, Caio,
Landscape's Revenge : The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / Caio Yurgel. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] ©2019 - 1 online resource (264 p.) - Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2 .
Dissertation
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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783110617580
10.1515/9783110617580 doi
20th-century Realism.
Anti-heroes.
Antihelden.
Landscape.
Landschaft.
Realismus.
Romanticism.
Romantik.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
PQ9698.13.A6525 / Y87 2019eb
869.342
Landscape's Revenge : The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / Caio Yurgel. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] ©2019 - 1 online resource (264 p.) - Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo ; 2 .
Dissertation
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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783110617580
10.1515/9783110617580 doi
20th-century Realism.
Anti-heroes.
Antihelden.
Landscape.
Landschaft.
Realismus.
Romanticism.
Romantik.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
PQ9698.13.A6525 / Y87 2019eb
869.342