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Violent Modernists
Kai Evers
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Description for Violent Modernists
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Accounts of rape, murder, mutilation, and torture run like a bloodred thread through modernist literature in the German language. Previous accounts of German literary modernism have linked its fascination with violent destruction either to the militant avant-garde on the left or to fascist modernism on the right. Critics have noted that high modernists depicted violence through its impact on their own victimised protagonists. But by minimising and ignoring the often disturbing attraction to aggression in the works of Franz Kafka and others, these prevalent readings have filtered out much of the provocative and productive potential of German modernism.
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Accounts of rape, murder, mutilation, and torture run like a bloodred thread through modernist literature in the German language. Previous accounts of German literary modernism have linked its fascination with violent destruction either to the militant avant-garde on the left or to fascist modernism on the right. Critics have noted that high modernists depicted violence through its impact on their own victimised protagonists. But by minimising and ignoring the often disturbing attraction to aggression in the works of Franz Kafka and others, these prevalent readings have filtered out much of the provocative and productive potential of German modernism.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129306
SKU
V9780810129306
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About Kai Evers
Kai Evers is an associate professor of German at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
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