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Book SynopsisAddressing a set of historical and theoretical questions central to reevaluations of modernism, this volume presents American readers with an account of German modernism studies in the eighties. It examines texts by well-known authors - Kafka, Rilke, Musil, Doblin, Benjamin, Benn, and Junger.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Modernism and the Experience of Modernity, by David Bathrick and Andreas Huyssen Part I. The Avant-Garde: Politics and the Text Speaking the Other's Silence: Franz Jung's Der Fall Gross, by David Bathrick Carl Einstein; or, The Postmodern Transformation of Modernism, by Jochen Schulte-Sasse Written Right Across Their Faces: Ernst Junger's Fascist Modernism, by Russell A. Berman The Loss of Reality: Gottfried Benn's Early Prose, by Peter Uwe Hohendahl Each One as She May: Melanctha, Tonka, Nadja, by Judith Ryan Part II. Modernist Cities: Paris-New York-Berlin Paris / Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Andreas Huyssen Kafka and New York: Notes on a Traveling Narrative, by Mark Anderson The City as Narrator: The Modern Text in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Klaus R. Scherpe Part III. Writing and Modernist Thought Woman and Modernity: The [Life]Styles of Lou Andreas-Salome, by Biddy Martin A View Through the Red Window: Ernst Bloch's Spuren, by Klaus L. Berghahn Walter Benjamin's Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience, by Ackbar Abbas Index
