Modernity & the Text (Paper)

Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-231-06645-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huyssen, Andreas

Bathrick, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsModernism and the Experience of Modernity, by David Bathrick and Andreas HuyssenPart I. The Avant-Garde: Politics and the TextSpeaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross, by David BathrickCarl Einstein; or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism, by Jochen Schulte-SasseWritten Right Across Their Faces: Ernst Junger's Fascist Modernism, by Russell A. BermanThe Loss of Reality: Gottfried Benn's Early Prose, by Peter Uwe HohendahlEach One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja, by Judith RyanPart II. Modernist Cities: Paris-New York-BerlinParis / Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Andreas HuyssenKafka and New York: Notes on a Traveling Narrative, by Mark AndersonThe City as Narrator: The Modern Text in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Klaus R. ScherpePart III. Writing and Modernist ThoughtWoman and Modernity: The [Life]Styles of Lou Andreas-Salome, by Biddy MartinA View Through the Red Window: Ernst Bloch's Spuren, by Klaus L. BerghahnWalter Benjamin's Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience, by Ackbar AbbasIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Huyssen is Chairman of the German department at Columbia University.His most recent book is After the Great Divide. He is founding member and coeditor of New German Critique. David Bathrick is Professor of German at Cornell University. He is coeditor or New German Critique and author of numerous articles and two books: The Dialectic and the Early Brecht and Powers of Speech.