Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Introduction: National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde / Matthias Konzett -- Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death / Marlene Streeruwitz -- The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard / Dagmar Lorenz -- A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy / Stephen D. Dowden -- Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works / Paola Bozzi -- The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug / Rudiger Gorner -- Thomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy / Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler -- Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose / Mark M. Anderson -- The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek / Gitta Honegger -- Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works / Andrew Webber -- Language Speaks. Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation / Gitta Honegger -- Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction / Jonathan Long -- Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos / Willy Riemer -- My Latest Encounter with Bernhard / Marlene Streeruwitz.
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Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex writer has risen to the point that he is now regarded as a major European figure. Bernhard emerged in the 1960s as one of Austria's major writers, challenging the popularity of such established writers as Heinrich Böll & Günter Grass.