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They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser
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They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser Paperback - 2016

by Jan Plug


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In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures "have all been healed." They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser, from his minidrama Snow White and his acknowledged masterpieces The Walk and Jakob von Gunten to his enigmatic last novel, The Robber. At the same time, Jan Plug reads Walser alongside his most compelling readers, tracing how not only Benjamin but also Giorgio Agamben, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay complicate, clarify, and enact that same process of healing in their own work. Working out the theological implications of Walser's work and of the tradition to which he gives rise, Plug at once recasts one of the major authors of the twentieth century and articulates a new conception of healing and salvation.

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  • Title They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser
  • Author Jan Plug
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press
  • Date 2016
  • ISBN 9780810132634 / 081013263X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects Healing in literature, Walser, Robert - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016018953
  • Dewey Decimal Code 833.912

About the author

JAN PLUG is a professor of English and director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.
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