,Ent-Spatialisierung‘? oder: Das Scheitern der insularen Existenz in THEODOR STORMS Novelle Waldwinkel, mit Seitenblicken auf RAABE und STIFTER
“De-spatialization”? or the Fall of Insular Existence in THEODOR STORM’S Waldwinkel in Reference to Prose by RAABE and SIFTER

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with successful and unsuccessful constructions of the island utopia (which, however, are not bound to any real island, as in so many designs of the century, which are, however, briefly referred to), in terms of narrative issues and approaches from the Spatial Turn, and connects them with resolution tendencies of the so-called romantic “loneliness of the forest.” Das Odfeld (1889) by RAABES and Die Narrenburg (1844) by ADALBERT STIFTER’S are discussed, and in particular THEODOR STORM’S greatly underrated and little-interpreted novel Waldwinkel (1874), as an unattractive and there-fore innovative counter-model, which shows openly how time, and history itself, break into the spatial utopia, and thereby transfer it to a realistic level.

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