Hermann Broch, visionary in exile : the 2001 Yale Symposium / edited by Paul Michael Lützeler in cooperation with Matthias Konzett [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lützeler, Paul Michael, editor.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951--Criticism and interpretation.

Broch, Hermann.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

PAUL MICHAEL LüTZELER is Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works. MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale.

Summary:

The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with 'The Sleepwalkers', a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is 'The Death of Virgil', a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, a kind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychology. He has a special connection to Yale, as he lived the last years of his life there after having escaped Austria in 1938. The participants in the Yale Symposium of April 2001 are among the world's most prominent Broch scholars. Fourteen of their presentations have been extensively revised for this volume, which focuses on Broch as critic and as novelist and dramatist. Topics include Broch's views on kitsch and art, and on drama; his cultural criticism; his cooperation with Borgese and Arendt; his theory of mass psychology; history in his works, Ernst Kretschmer's influence on him; 'Virgil' and Celan's 'Atemwende'; Jean Starr Untermeyer's translation of 'Virgil'; guilt and the fall in 'Those without Guilt'; and Broch reception in Japan. PAUL MICHAEL LüTZELER is Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works. MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale.

Contents:

Introduction: Broch, Our Contemporary / Paul Michael Lutzeler

Kitsch and Art: Broch's Essay "Das Bose im Wertsystem der Kunst" / Ruth Kluger

Erneuerung des Theaters?: Broch's Ideas on Drama in Context / Ernst Schurer

"Der Rhythmus der Ideen": On the Workings of Broch's Cultural Criticism / Bernhard Fetz

"Kurzum die Holle": Broch's Early Political Text "Die Strasse" / Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler

Visionaries in Exile: Broch's Cooperation with G. A. Borgese and Hannah Arendt / Paul Michael Lutzeler

Fear in Culture: Broch's Massenwahntheorie / Wolfgang Muller-Funk

Inscriptions of Power: Broch's Narratives of History in Die Schlafwandler / Kathleen L. Komar

German Colonial Aftermath: Broch's 1903: Esch oder die Anarchie / Judith Ryan

Neither Sane nor Insane: Ernst Kretschmer's Influence on Broch's Early Novels / Gisela Brude-Firnau

Non-Contemporaneity of the Contemporaneous: Broch's Novel Die Verzauberung / Gisela Roethke

"Great Theater" and "Soap Bubbles": Broch the Dramatist / Roberto Rizzo

Farewell to Art: Poetic Reflection in Broch's Der Tod des Vergil / Jurgen Heizmann

Poetry as Perjury: The End of Art in Broch's Der Tod des Vergil and Celan's Atemwende / Peter Yoonsuk Paik

"Beyond Words": The Translation of Broch's Der Tod des Vergil by Jean Starr Untermeyer / John Hargraves

Between Guilt and Fall: Broch's Die Schuldlosen / Theodore Ziolkowski

Broch Reception in Japan: Shin'ichiro Nakamura and Die Schuldlosen / Koichi Yamaguchi

Index of Broch's Works.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-57113-631-2