Violent Modernists The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature

Kai Evers's Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Evers, Kai author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 2013
Chicago : 2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modernity, modernism, and violence
  • Causing violence: Robert Musil's The confusions of young Torless and the path to an antireductionist theory of violence
  • War, violence, and the malleable self: Robert Musil's postwar critique of violence in The man without qualities
  • Kafka's poetics of the knife: on violence, truth, and ambivalence in In the penal colony
  • Chemical warfare and destructive satires: Canetti and Benjamin's search for the murderous substance of satire.