A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard

New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.

List of contents

Introduction: National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde - Matthias Konzett
Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death - Marlene Streeruwitz
The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy - Stephen D. Dowden
Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works - Paola Bozzi
The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug - Ruediger Goerner
Thomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy - Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose - Mark M. Anderson
The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek - Gitta Honegger
Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works - Andrew J. Webber
Language Speaks: Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation - Gitta Honegger
Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction - Jonathan Long
Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos - Willy Riemer
My Latest Encounter with Bernhard - Marlene Streeruwitz

Product details

• Authors: Matthias Konzett
• Assisted by: Matthias Konzett (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134615
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-461-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies