Ebook: Robert Walser: a Companion

Introduction. Robert Walser : modernist at the margins / Samuel Frederick and Valerie Heffernan -- The young poet (1896-1899) / Susan Bernofsky -- To pieces : Robert Walser's correspondence with Frieda Mermet / Elke Siegel -- Robert Walser as lyric poet / Samuel Frederick -- Antechambers of life : school and living-on in Fritz Kocher's essays / Anette Schwarz -- Robert Walser's Jewish Berlin / Daniel Medin -- Out of a job : giving notice in The tanners and The assistant / Paul Buchholz -- Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten : a "zero" point of German literature / Peter Utz -- Robert Walser's sceneries : "Kleist in Thun" and "The walk" / Bernhard F. Malkmus -- Immersion, interpolation, philology : losing oneself in Robert Walser / Jorg Kreienbrock -- Parodies of power : Robert Walser's dramatic scenes / Valerie Heffernan -- Robert Walser and violence : strange excursions into the microscripts / Kai Evers -- Robert Walser's The robber : an exercise in camp / Anne Fuchs.