Violent modernists

• Verfasst von: Evers, Kai
• Titel: Violent modernists
• Titelzusatz: the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature
• Verf.angabe: Kai Evers
• Verlagsort: Evanston, Ill.
• Verlag: Northwestern Univ. Press
• Jahr: 2013
• Umfang: XXI, 265 S.
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2930-6
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2962-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Deutsch / (s)Literatur / (s)Gewalt <Motiv> / (s)Krieg <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1906-1942
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.: Evers, Kai: Violent modernists. - Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2013. - 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 265 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: GM 1600
• Sach-SW: Deutsch
• Sach-SW: Literatur
• Sach-SW: Gewalt <Motiv>
• Sach-SW: Krieg <Motiv>
• Zeit-SW: Geschichte 1906-1942
• K10plus-PPN: 737639253

Abstract

Modernity, modernism, and violenceCausing 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.