Adalbert Stifter's Late Prose the Mania for Moderation
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
Adalbert Stifter seems on the surface to uphold his stated ideals of moderation, order, Meaning, Truth -- and he does so most emphatically in his later works. Here, however, Stifter's medium becomes his message: he so immoderately seeks to instantiate moderation that his style becomes uniquely manic, and betrays a vision of chaos, fear, unmeaning, and ineffable otherness arguably more radical than that of any nineteenth-century writer, and strongly prefigurative of visions characteristic of the twentieth century.
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