Excesses do not disrupt order but emerge from it in the first place. This analysis illustrates how closely order and excess are interwoven in Adalbert Stifter’s Bunte Steine (1853). It is the seemingly balanced uniformity of things that repeatedly reveals the outrageous and excessive structure in Stifter’s texts: Catastrophes, for example, erupt from the middle of a cultural space seemingly purged of unforeseen disruptions. The same holds true of the protagonists' forbidden desires, which are revealed all the more through their careful concealment. It is therefore precisely the "harmless things", as Stifter calls them, that signify the eternal return of excess.
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Copyright Year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-3-68900-016-5
ISBN-Online
978-3-68900-017-2
Publisher
Tectum, Baden-Baden
Series
Young Academics: Literaturwissenschaft
Volume
2
Language
German
Pages
112
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - X
1. Einleitung: Sanftes und Maßloses No access Pages 1 - 8
2.1. Von Ur-Ordnungen und Un-Ordnungen: Granit No access
2.2.1. Exzessverbot und Übertretung No access
2.2.2. Grenzen und Differenzen No access
2.3. Vom stillen Schrecken: Bergkristall No access
3.1. Von Spuren des Exzesses No access
3.2. Von Verhüllungen: Kalkstein No access
4.1. Balance als Bilanz No access
4.2. Aufschub No access
4.3. Überschuss No access
4.4. Steigerung No access
5. Wiederholungswelten No access Pages 83 - 100
6. Schluss No access Pages 101 - 106
Literaturverzeichnis No access Pages 107 - 112
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