Permanent liminality and modernity : analysing the sacrificial carnival through novels / Arpad Szakolczai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szakolczai, Árpád, author.

Series:

Contemporary liminality

Contemporary liminality series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liminality.

Liminality in literature.

Rites and ceremonies.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

ix, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Before WWI : waiting for the storm

Empires and their collapse : fin-de-siècle vienna in context

Hugo von Hofmannstha l: promises and realities

Novel origins : Rilke's notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas

Suspended in the in-between : Franz Kafka

Kafka's sources and insights : theatre and other modes of distorted communication

Kafka's novels : in between theatre, theology and prophecy

The Zürau notebooks : the indestructible and the way

After WWI : hypermodernity as sacrificial carnival

Thomas Mann : death in venice and magic mountain

Karen Blixen : carnival and angelic avengers

Hermann Broch : sleepwalkers

Mikhail Bulgakov : master and margarita

Heimito von Doderer : demons

Béla Hamvas : carnival

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472473882

1472473884

OCLC:

960968948