Adalbert Stifter: A Critical Study

This 1948 text was the first complete study of Austrian prose writer Adalbert Stifter's work to appear in English.

Eric A. Blackall (Author)

9781107601307, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2011

444 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Adalbert Stifter (1805–68) is generally recognised in German-speaking countries to be the greatest prose-writer of Austria. First published in 1948, this was the first complete study of his work to appear in English. Stifter was born and dwelt in the village of Oberplan on the southern fringe of Bohemia. His life was uneventful, and Mr Blackall's concern is biographical study only so far as the life and background are important in a full understanding of the writings. His plan is to first give an account and analysis of Der Nachsommer, Stifter's greatest book and the work of his maturity, and to make this novel the key to all his other work as well as to his life and thought.

Frontispiece
Part I. Prologue: 1. Introduction
Part II. Evolution: 2. The setting
3. The child
4. Kremsmünster
5. Vienna
6. First loves
7. Amalia
8. The first Studien
9. Der Hochwald
Part III. Realization: 10. Die Narrenburg, Prokopus, Wien und die Wiener
11. Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters
12. Abdias, Das alte Siegel, Brigitta
13. The last studien
Part IV. Crisis: 14. Before the storm
15. Revolution and reaction
16. Bunte Steine
Part V. Fruition: 17. Education
18. Art
19. Der Nachsommer
20. Late stories
21. Witiko
Part VI. Epilogue: 22. The summing up
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]