War in Peacetime: Authorship between Bachmann and Ungaretti
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https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.10.0.4511Abstract
The following reflections contribute to an exploration of the “peacetime crimes” in Ingeborg Bachmann’s work by offering an analysis of an episode in her novel Malina. Tracing a hitherto unnoticed allusion to a poem by Ungaretti, the analysis also contributes to a discussion of Bachmann’s poetics of citation. The subtle web of intertextual play and citation that pervades the whole novel de-emphasizes the role of the author in literary history and opens instead a reading space where literature as textual memory, again and again, comes to be actualized.Published
2019-01-08
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Agnese, B. (2019). War in Peacetime: Authorship between Bachmann and Ungaretti. Konturen, 10(1), 81–102. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.10.0.4511
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