Landscape's Revenge : The ecology of failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho / / Caio Yurgel

• Autore: Yurgel Caio
• Pubblicazione: De Gruyter, 2019; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Disciplina: 869.342
• Soggetto topico: 20th-century Realism; Anti-heroes; Antihelden; Landscape; Landschaft; Realismus; Romanticism; Romantik; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th-century Realism; Anti-heroes; Landscape; Romanticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review: Landscape's revenge -- 3. From the unreal to the apocalypse: The landscape as a function of language and narrative in Walser and Carvalho -- 4. The disappearing act: Moving towards the margins -- 5. How to do things with fire: The desert as landscape's final revenge and as the culmination of Walser's and Carvalho's literary projects -- 6. The desert for conclusion -- References
• Sommario/riassunto: Landscape, as it appears and is described throughout the works of Bernardo Carvalho and Robert Walser, provides an excellent-yet virtually unexplored-pathway to the authors' literary projects. The landscape functions here as a synthetic and unifying figure that triggers, at first, through the analysis of its description per se, the main and most evident elements of the authors' works. However, when sustained as a methodological figure beyond the scope of its own description, the landscape soon reveals a darker, far more fascinating and far less explored side of the authors' oeuvres: a vengeful, seemingly defeatist resentment against the status quo, which gives way to the more latent and biting elements of the authors' prose, such as irony, the unheimlich, an anti-heroic agenda, the apocalyptic aesthetics of a disaster-prone fictional world, as well as an understanding of history and literature through the figures of failure and marginality. By drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this comparative text seeks to unravel, in all of its complexity and scope, the fictional stage upon which Walser's and Carvalho's characters narrate, with their dying breath, a world that is slowly undoing itself.
• Titolo autorizzato: Landscape's Revenge
• ISBN: 3-11-061758-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910309740003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Latin American literatures in the world ; ; Volume 2.