Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Holderlin

Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Holderlin
ISBN-10
0820332445
ISBN-13
9780820332444
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
2008-04-01
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Alice A. Kuzniar

Description

In Delayed Endings, Alice A. Kuzniar demonstrates how Novalis and Hölderlin exemplified the Romantics' new way of narrating time, and how their method of nonclosure, or the deliberate avoidance of resolution and the strategies that bring it about, united the narrative, semantic, and thematic strains of their work. Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen not only lacks a conclusion but even has a ruptured and disoriented beginning. --University of Georgia Press.

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