A companion to the works of Thomas Bernhard

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Introduction

National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde

Matthias Konzett 1

Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death

Marlene Streeruwitz 23

The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard

Dagmar Lorenz 29

A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy

Stephen D. Dowden 51

Bernhard's Poetics

Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works

Paola Bozzi 71

The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug

Riidiger Girner 89

Thomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy

Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler 105

Bernhard and Drama

Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose

Mark M. Anderson 119

The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the

Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek

Gitta Honegger 137

Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works

Andrew Webber 149

Bernhard's Social Worlds

Language Speaks. Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation

Gitta Honegger 169

Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction

Jonathan Long 187

Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos

Willy Riemer 209

My Latest Encounter with Bernhard

Marlene Streeruwitz 223.