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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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
2013
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435734406719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
