Violent Modernists : : The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature / / Kai Evers.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Chicago : : Northwestern University Press,, 2013. |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
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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.