TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yurgel,Caio
TI  - Landscape's Revenge: The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho 
T2  - Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo
SN  - 9783110617580
AV  - PQ9698.13.A6525 Y87 2019eb
U1  - 869.342 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - 20th-century Realism
KW  - Anti-heroes
KW  - Antihelden
KW  - Landscape
KW  - Landschaft
KW  - Realismus
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Romantik
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617580
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