Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s (review)
mixed classification of the saints by historical period, institutional role, and archival status. A separate gloss for each of the major novels, finally, might have discouraged Schork from indulging his proclivity for letting saintly anecdote drive his presentation rather than their allusive force in the texts that he intends to illuminate. But then again this may just be the consequence of his commitment to hagiography for its own sake.