Modernity and the Text : : Revisions of German Modernism / / David Bathrick, Andreas Huyssen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bathrick, David,; Huyssen, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 1989
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Modernism and the Experience of Modernity / Bathrick, David / Huyssen, Andreas -- Part I. The Avant-Garde: Politics and the Text -- Speaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross / Bathrick, David -- Carl Einstein; or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism / Schulte-Sasse, Jochen -- Written Right Across Their Faces: Ernst Junger' s Fascist Modernism / Berman, Russell A. -- The Loss of Reality: Gottfried Benn's Early Prose / Hohendahl, Peter Uwe -- Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja / Ryan, Judith -- PART II. Modernist Cities: Paris-New York-Berlin -- Paris/Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Huyssen, Andreas -- Kafka and New York: Notes on a Traveling Narrative / Anderson, Mark -- The City as Narrator: The Modern Text in Alfred Dahlin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Scherpe, Klaus R. -- PART III. Writing and Modernist Thought -- Woman and Modernity: The [Life]Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé / Martin, Biddy -- A View Through the Red Window: Ernst Bloch's Spuren / Berghahn, Klaus L. -- Walter Benjamin's Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience / Abbas, Ackbar -- Index