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Book/Printed Material Violent modernists : the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature

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Title

  • Violent modernists : the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature

Names

  • Evers, Kai

Created / Published

  • Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
  • ©2013

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.

Headings

  • -  German fiction--20th century--History and criticism
  • -  Modernism (Literature)--Germany
  • -  Violence in literature

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xxi, 265 pages,)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PT772

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715350

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Evers, Kai. Violent modernists: the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature. [Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, ©, 2013] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715350/.

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Evers, K. (2013) Violent modernists: the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature. [Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715350/.

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Evers, Kai. Violent modernists: the aesthetics of destruction in twentieth-century German literature. [Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, ©, 2013] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715350/>.