Violent Modernists : The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature / Kai Evers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evers, Kai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, and others, Evers argues that these authors are among the most innovative thinkers on violence and its impact on contemporary concepts of the self, history, and society.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Modernity, Modernism, and Violence 3

Chapter 2 Causing Violence: Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless and the Path to an Antireductionist Theory of Violence 39

Chapter 3 War, Violence, and the Malleable Self: Robert Musil's Postwar Critique of Violence in The Man Without Qualities 75

Chapter 4 Kafka's Poetics of the Knife: On Violence, Truth, and Ambivalence in In the Penal Colony 117

Chapter 5 Chemical Warfare and Destructive Satires: Canetti and Benjamin's Search for the Murderous Substance of Satire 156.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102792

ISBN:

9780810129627

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access