Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231066457 ISBN 13 : 9780231066457

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The study of Austrian and German modernist literature has a long and venerable history in this country. There have been no attempts yet, however, to reassess German and Austrian literary modernism in light of current discussion of modernity and postmodernity. Addressing a set of historical and theoretical questions central to current reevaluations of modernism, this volume presents American readers with a state-of-the-art account of German modernism studies in the eighties.

Essays by Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Russell A. Berman, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Judith Ryan, Mark Anderson, Klaus R. Scherpe, Biddy Martin, Klaus L. Berghahn and Acbar Abbas, center around German and Austrian literary and philosophical prose of the early twentieth century. texts by well-known authors -Kafka, Rilke, Musil, Doblin, Benjamin, Benn, and Junger - and less well-known ones -Franz Jung, Carl Einstein, Ernst Bloch, Lou Andreas-Salome, are examined.

Particular attention is paid to the processes and strategies by which certain experiences of "modern life" are translated into modern aesthetic forms.

The unique contribution of this volume is that it combines theory with an attempt to reintroduce an historical and contextual dimension. The authors believe that their revisions of Ausrian and German modernism will themselves be informed by a new set of questions pertinent to the modernist debate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andreas Huyssen (PhD, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Zurich) is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society and a founding editor of The journal New German Critique, he is the author of a number of books, including Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (Harvard, 2015) and Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (Routledge, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231066457
• ISBN 13: 9780231066457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Huyssen Andreas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible