10% off all books and free delivery over £50
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter

View All Editions (1)

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter Synopsis

Brigid Haines focuses on the crucial interplay between dialogue and narrative in Adalbert Stifter's works and relates this to their overall structure. Stifter, a conservative and often didactic writer, is nevertheless shown to present a complex view of reality which incorporates subjective and sometimes subversive voices. In Der beschriebene Tännling the characters' utterances relativize the narrator's apparently objective account, while in the Bildungsroman Der Nachsommer one subjective voice succeeds in calling into question the validity of the tightly-woven rhetorical creed on which the novel is based. Stifter achieved a more open form in his final novel, Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters, which articulates honestly his own doubts about the adequacy of human communication and understanding.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780947623449
Publication date:
Author: Brigid Haines
Publisher: Institute of Modern Languages Research
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 162 pages
Series: Bithell Series of Dissertations
Genres: Literary studies: general