A Companion to the Works of Adalbert Stifter Ireton Birkhold Vance Byrd Franzel

A Companion to the Works of Adalbert StifterAuthor(s): Sean M. Ireton, Matthew H Birkhold, Vance Byrd, Sean Franzel, Samuel Frederick, Jason Groves, Tove Holmes, Alexander Robert Phillips, Jessica C. Resvick, Zachary Sng\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640141070, 978-1640141070\nSynopsis\nPresents Stifter's multi-faceted oeuvre to both a German Studies and non-specialized Anglophone audience, showing today's readers the relevance of its concerns.\n\nThe canonical nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter [tel], long considered a staid stylist - if not mannerist - and a conservative-bourgeois apologist, has recently become the subject of more vibrant literary-theoretical approaches. While Stifter is primarily known for his fictional prose, including two lengthy novels (Der Nachsommer [Indian Summer] and Witiko) and numerous novella-length narratives, he also wrote dozens of cultural-political and .