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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Robert Walser"”.
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… Drawing on Yusuf Atılgan, Fernando Pessoa, and Robert Walser, I argue that what boredom induced by work reveals is that the problem is not that we get bored, but how we get bored. The second chapter wrestles with the question of desire and death by focusing on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. …
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Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing
… of overhearing and eavesdropping in texts by Robert Walser, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. Using approaches from queer and affect theory, I develop a notion of overhearing as generating an ambivalent form of intimacy and community. This intimacy arises in response to, then integrates, the …