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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press
©2013.
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| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44584386*spi |
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.
