Robert Walser: Unmoored: Schizophrenia, Cognition, and the Text, Charles Vannette

Автор: Ana Schwartz
Название: Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
ISBN: 1469671778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469671772
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be judged. In a remote, politically volatile frontier, settlers gambled that sincerity would reinforce social cohesion and shore up communal happiness. Sincere feelings and the discursive practices that manifested them promised a safe haven in a world of grinding uncertainty.

But as Ana Schwartz demonstrates, if sincerity promised much, it often delivered more: it bred shame and resentment among the English settlers and, all too often, extraordinary violence toward their Algonquian neighbors and the captured Africans who lived among them. Populating her "city on a hill" with the stock characters of Puritan studies as well as obscure actors, Schwartz breathes new life into our understanding of colonial New England.

Автор: Walser Richard
Название: The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe
ISBN: 0674862775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674862777
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Автор: Samuel Frederick, Valerie Heffernan
Название: Robert Walser: A Companion
ISBN: 0810137135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810137134
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Описание: Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee, and an increasing number of his books are now available in English translation. Robert Walser: A Companion offers the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to Walser’s work available in English to date.Examining Walser’s literary works, milieu, and idiosyncratic writing process, the twelve essays in Robert Walser: A Companion addresses aspects of his biography; discusses the various genres in which he wrote—the novel, short prose, drama, lyric poetry, and letters—and analyzes his best-known novels and short stories alongside lesser-known but no less fascinating poems, dramas, and prose pieces.A welcome addition to scholarship about this idiosyncratic, prolific, and influential writer’s work, Robert Walser: A Companion will be of interest both to established scholars and to those coming to the Walser literature for the first time.