Narrating islands: fragmentation and totality as figures of thought in Raoul Schrott’s work
This paper reflects on depictions of islands in two novels by the Austrian author Raoul Schrott (born 1964): his first novel, Finis Terrae: Manuscripts, from 1995, and the later Tristan da Cunha or Half of the Earth from 2003. I argue that Schrott’s concepts and explorations of islands strongly infl...
Main Author: | Oriana Schällibaum |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Prince Edward Island
2017-11-01
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Series: | Island Studies Journal |
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