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1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Broch's Life and Works -- 1: Perspectives on Broch's Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self -- 2: Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age -- 3: Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch's Postromanticism -- 4: Broch and the Theater: Die Entsühnung and Aus der Luft gegriffen as Tragic and Comic Dramatizations of the Economic Machine -- 5: Limits of the Scientific: Broch's Die Unbekannte Größe -- 6: Broch's Die Verzauberung: Ludwig Klages and the Bourgeois Mitläufer -- 7: Hermann Broch's Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Times -- 8: Human Rights and the Intellectual's Ethical Duty: Broch's Political Writings -- 9: Broch's Der Tod des Vergil: Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable -- 10: From the "Tierkreis-Erzählungen" to Die Schuldlosen: The Creation of Broch's Last Novel -- 11: Broch's Legacy and Resonance -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bartram, Graham, 1946- editor.
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McGaughey, Sarah, editor
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Tihanov, Galin, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787444652 |
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1787444651 |
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