02645nam 22005413a 450 991033265210332120211214195616.00-8101-2930-2(CKB)4100000008965381(OAPEN)1005248(ScCtBLL)022eb841-8d5c-4a3f-ac5c-ec964381f282(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32773(EXLCZ)99410000000896538120211214i20132019 uu enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierViolent Modernists : The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature /Kai EversEvanston, IllinoisNorthwestern University Press2013Chicago :Northwestern University Press,2013.1 online resource (1 p.)0-8101-2962-0 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.Kai Evers's Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, and others, Evers argues that these authors are among the most innovative thinkers on violence and its impact on contemporary concepts of the self, history, and society.Literary Criticism / European / GermanbisacshLiteratureHistory and criticismLiteratureGermanyMusilKafkaBenjaminKrausCanettiTwentiethAestheticsDestructionLiterary Criticism / European / GermanLiteratureHistory and criticism833/.9109Evers Kai904799ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910332652103321Violent Modernists2023482UNINA