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- Title
CHAOS UND FORM, RAUM UND ETHOS IN STIFTERS BUNTE STEINE.
- Authors
Nitschke, Claudia
- Abstract
Form, order, and the desire to create structure are ubiquitous in Adalbert Stifter's work, both as theme and in the presentation of his oeuvre. It is striking that quotidian rituals and emergency situations such as thunder and snowstorms are often intrinsically tied to places. In Stifter's narratives the spatial concurrence of danger as a manifestation of formlessness, and structure as a potential remedy for the precarious situations, reveals a specific technique of stabilisation. This omnipresent need for stabilising rituals (occurring in a specific place) indirectly demonstrates that notions of transgression are integral to Stifter's texts, even though he consistently attempts to transform it into a certain structure: in this regard an individual and collective moral style of life is presented as the best and most natural way of coping with external forces by dint of an autonomous (but naturally pre-ordained) order.
- Subjects
STIFTER, Adalbert, 1805-1868; BUNTE Steine (Book); HAZARDS in literature; 19TH century German literature -- History &; criticism; RITES &; ceremonies in literature; LITERATURE &; morals; LANGUAGE &; languages in literature; FREE will &; determinism in literature
- Publication
German Life & Letters, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 4, p554
- ISSN
0016-8777
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/glal.12099