| Framing a Novelist: Arno Schmidt Criticism 1970-1994 Contributor(s): Weninger, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571130608 ISBN-13: 9781571130600 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 833.914 |
| LCCN: 95002821 |
| Physical Information: 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recognised as one of post-war Germany's most idiosyncratic and notorious novelists, Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) was both an eccentric literary innovator and provocative literary historian. Although his works make no concessions to the general reader, Schmidt has proved astonishingly popular, challenging the assumptions of many critics that he was a quixotic elitist devoid of a wider audience. This volume is the only study in either English or German to chart the field of Schmidt criticism comprehensively since 1970. Focusing on the ways in which critics have attempted to frame' their subject, and taking modern literary theory into account, the author provides a thematic outline of Schmidt criticism as well as critical analyses of the scholarship on selected works. |