A Companion to the Works of Adalbert Stifter by Ireton, Sean M.;

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; 249;

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Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Date of Publication 18 March 2025
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9781640141070
Binding Hardback
No. of pages356 pages
Size 228.6x152.4 mm
Weight 666 g
Language English
Illustrations 16 b/w illus.

Short description:

Presents Stifter's multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today's readers the relevance of its concerns.

Long description:

Presents Stifter's multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today's readers the relevance of its concerns. The canonical nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), long considered a staid stylist - if not mannerist - and a conservative-bourgeois apologist, has recently become the subject of more vibrant literary-theoretical approaches. While Stifter is primarily known for his fictional prose, including two lengthy novels (Der Nachsommer [Indian Summer] and Witiko) and numerous novella-length narratives, he also wrote dozens of cultural-political and scientific essays. Moreover, his professional activity in the Austrian school system and his diverse publications in the realm of pedagogy not only shed interpretive light on his literary production but also inform enduring debates on education reform and the intellectual-historical question of Bildung. This volume covers a wide range of texts and topics within Stifter's oeuvre. With respect to literary-historical coverage, it extends from his earliest tale Der Condor (The Condor, 1840) to his posthumously published chronicle Aus dem bairischen Walde (From the Bavarian Forest, 1868); in terms of genre, it embraces his novels and novellas, his essayistic work, and even his landscape paintings; finally, it pursues a host of deeper problems and thematic strands that permeate his texts and make them relevant to readers today. These include (neo-)conservatism, social unrest, law and order, ecology, climatology, bioregionalism, and the Anthropocene.

Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works Introduction: Stifter's Life and Works Sean Ireton Part I: Genre and Style 1. Stifter's Epic Style - Tove Holmes 2. Stifter and the Genre Conventions of Cultural Journalism - Sean Franzel 3. All Eyes on the Streets: Transformations of Public Work, Leisure, and Ritual in Wien und die Wiener - Vance Byrd 4. Stifter's Late Style - Samuel Frederick Part II: Texts and Contexts 5. The Birth of Realism out of the Spirit of Melodrama: Stifter's Feldblumen - Erica Weitzman 6. Backward Glances: Registers of the Past in Stifter's Die Mappe meines UrgroÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂvaters - Jessica C. Resvick 7. Lessons from Stifter's Bunte Steine - Zachary Sng 8. Absence and Omnipresence: On the Significance of Waste in Stifter's Der Nachsommer - Lars Rosenbaum Part III: Elements and Environments 9. Stifter's Stones - Jason Groves 10.Stifter's Glaciers - Matthew H. Birkhold 11.Cheerful Terror: Stifter and the Aesthetics of Atmosphere - Alexander Robert Phillips 12.Stifter's Bavarian-Bohemian Bioregionalism - Sean Ireton Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index