English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

In Robert Walser’s novel  Jakob von Gunten  (1909), a specific metanarrative revolves around the long-standing opposition between form and formlessness. This metanarrative redefines the ill-reputed non-form, establishing it as the core of aesthetic and linguistic productivity. At the same time, it provides insights into the literary precursors and theoretical contexts that reverberate throughout the novel. Literary resonances include Gottfried Keller’s canonical work  Der grüne Heinrich , whose images of formlessness are adapted and transformed in  Jakob von Gunten . On a theoretical level, it is a contemporary strand of Formal Aesthetics that elucidates the form-conceptual innovations in  Jakob von Gunten . Reconstructing the references that structure the novel and its underlying poetology of form, this article reviews a literary manifestation of the theory of form that shapes the aesthetic discourse in the 1900 s.

Colossal Scrawls and Divine Naughts: Images of Formlessness in Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich and Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten