Peter Handke: Narrative Worlds – Pictorial Orders
Rolf G. Renner, "Peter Handke: Narrative Worlds – Pictorial Orders"
English | ISBN: 3476059340 | 2023 | 514 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 3476059340 | 2023 | 514 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching orientations of Handke's writing. The autoreflexive traces that characterise the author's experimental early work are perpetuated in a middle phase by a return to traditional forms of epic narrative and literary models that is philosophically influenced. In the late work, these approaches give rise to a comprehensive poetology of narrative that links all the texts together. In the process, previously developed motifs are condensed into overarching thematic complexes. Alongside the reality of war, the relationship between image and writing, text and film, social and media developments of modernity come to the fore. The reference of Handke's texts to images of the painterly tradition and visual strategies of his writing are given special weight.
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