C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adalbert Stifter, Vanishing Point
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3:29 pm: adalbert stifter: high forest/hochwald (1842) Adalbert stifter"s novella high forest, in 1842 edition of gustav. The story is set in and around oberplan, the bohemian forest village of. Stifter"s childhood, and stretches back to the thirty years" war. The theme is the tragic downfall of a family the genesis of tradition. These two components are intertwined in a manner which is contradictory in substance, but coherent in its aesthetics. Basic semantic functions of the village chronicle i. ii. iii. iv. the delineation of a collective group of protagonists the village community with the help of a topographical site. Natural and social phenomena in the village chronicle tend to be, at least potentially, Framework: first person narrator clear overview of the topography. Stifter attempts ascribing dynamic and perhaps even intentional action to the main elements of the landscape. Transforms the topographical details of this magical natural spot into a man-made human counterpart.
