The End of Modernism : : Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fe / / William Collins Donahue.

Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, Auto-da-Fe first received critical acclaim abroad--in England, France, and the United States--where it continues to fas...

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Superior document:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 124
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Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 124.
Physical Description:1 online resource (301 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Novel(s) in the Novel; 2. ""The truth is you're a woman. You live for sensations.""; 3. Self-Indulgent Philosophies of the Weimar Period; 4. The Hunchback of ""Heaven""; 5. ""An Impudent Choir of Croaking Frogs""; 6. Neither Adorno nor Lukács; Notes; Bibliography; Index