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Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter

Brigid Haines focuses on the crucial interplay between dialogue and narrative in Adalbert Stifter’s works and relates this to their overall structure. Stifter, a conservative and often didactic writer, is nevertheless shown to present a complex view of reality which incorporates subjective and somet...

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Main Author: Haines, Brigid
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2024
Subjects:
Drama
Women Authors
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFA Austria
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050::3MRBF c 2010 to c 2019
Online Access:ONIX_20241115_9781839546723_35
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Summary:Brigid Haines focuses on the crucial interplay between dialogue and narrative in Adalbert Stifter’s works and relates this to their overall structure. Stifter, a conservative and often didactic writer, is nevertheless shown to present a complex view of reality which incorporates subjective and sometimes subversive voices. In Der beschriebene Tännling the characters’ utterances relativize the narrator’s apparently objective account, while in the Bildungsroman Der Nachsommer one subjective voice succeeds in calling into question the validity of the tightly-woven rhetorical creed on which the novel is based. Stifter achieved a more open form in his final novel, Die Mappe mines Urgroßvaters, which articulates honestly his own doubts about the adequacy of human communication and understanding. This book, originally published in paperback in 1991 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-44-9, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.

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