Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard’s Prose

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Bernhard in the Public
6. Introduction National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde 1
7. Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard’s Death 23
8. The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard 29
9. A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy 51
10. Bernhard’s Poetics
11. Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard’s Early Lyrical Works 71
12. The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard’s Notion of Weltbezug 89
13. Thomas Bernhard’s Poetics of Comedy 105
14. Bernhard and Drama
15. Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard’s Prose 119
16. The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard’s Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek 137
17. Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard’s Works 149
18. Bernhard’s Social Worlds
19. Photo courtesy of Erika Schmied 168
20. Language Speaks. Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation 169
21. Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard’s Fiction 187
22. Thomas Bernhard’s Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos 209
23. My Latest Encounter with Bernhard 223
24. Works Cited 229
25. Notes on the Contributors 243
26. Index 245