Narratives Unsettled

Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

By: Samuel Frederick

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In Narratives Unsettled, Samuel Frederick proposes a new conception of narrativity that can accommodate unwieldy forms of digression. By way of close readings of three German-language writers from different historical periods, Frederick demonstrates that digression, far from being a non- or anti-narrative interruption, contributes to what makes these writers' works fundamentally narrative. In the process, the author counters several foundational assumptions of classical narratology, including the conviction—rooted in Aristotle—that narrative without plot is logically impossible, and that anything deviating from narrative's teleological imperative is either destructive or insignificant.

Frederick's readings of the narrative experiments, utopian moments, and obsessions with the trivial in works by Walser, Bernhard, and Stifter point to new ways of approaching the ostensibly antinarrative as a productive element of narrativity. As a work that explores the often neglected crossroads of German studies and postclassical narratology, Narratives Unsettled will be of great interest to scholars in both of these fields, as well as to those working on literature and theory in general.

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"In modest yet poignant and lucid fashion Narratives Unsettled sets out to unsettle one of the most profound narratological distinctions since Aristotle's Poetics: the subservience of narrative to plot. The author has elegantly succeeded in a rather difficult task: to integrate two separate fields of research in such a way that both scholars and students of German studies, and a wider audience interested in problems and current trends in narratology will equally profit from it. This is a very original and far-reaching book, superbly organized and extremely well written." --Eva Geulen, author of The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Proliferation
Deviations and Divergences: Robert Walser's Perambulatory Prose	p. 25
Storytelling "Without the Story: The Unleashed Discourse of Walser's Microscripts	p. 63
Rupture / Dispersal
Digressivity, Madness, and the Infinite Continuum in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung	p. 101
Overcoming Narration: Adalbert Stifter's Indian Summer as a Postnarrative Novel	p. 129
Coda: Rescuing the Insignificant	p. 171
Appendix: Three Prose Pieces by Robert Walser	p. 175
Notes	p. 179
Works Cited	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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Narratives Unsettled

Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter

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